skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That’s because high prices are an essential way to ensure that resources get where they are desperately needed. [...]

In a vacuum, if all else is fixed, it would be true that those willing to pay more for a resource are those with greater need for it, but in reality a person's income/savings is a huge factor in how much they're willing/able to pay.

Price hikes can inhibit necessary usage by the less wealthy while barely doing anything to discourage unnecessary usage by the wealthy. I think the "let the free market take care of it" approach fails as a form of rationing because it biases resource allocation away from those who are most likely to truly have no other option.

A first-come-first-served rush isn't great either, but it isn't the only alternative. Flights allocated based on danger of area and availability of other transport options, for instance - it won't be perfect, but would be more in the right direction.

> True, the rising price of goods like gasoline can create problems for consumers, particularly the poor. But these drawbacks are negligible [...]

The "problems for consumers, particularly the poor" include, for instance, dying due lack of means to escape. That the less wealthy are disproportionately affected by natural disasters is a primary issue, not a footnote to discard as "negligible".
Why Southwest Airlines Doesn't Fly to Canada
I've dealt with this one, fun trick is to turn off or cover their monitor.
Surprisingly, yes the predicted structures from AlphaFold had functional groups that fit with experimental data of binding partners and homologues. While I don't know whether it matched with the actual crystallization, it did match with those orthogonal experiments (these were cell biology, genetics, and molecular biology labs, not protein structure labs, so they didn't try to actually crystalize the proteins themselves).
how much did it change compared to 2019?
Is there no system which can provide for widows and minor children yet isn't able to be taken advantage of by the hyperwealthy?
Because having some degree of runway is almost always necessary but never sufficient. Thousands of Americans receive similar amounts of money from their parents in the form of inheritance of the family home and other major assets. Only one took windfall of that size and created Amazon.
I’m not a binary guy that much, but iirc all floats are 1.m*2^e — “1.” is always there except for subnormals. There’s also SEEE FP4 which is basically +-2^([u?]int3).

https://medium.com/@harrietfiagbor/floating-points-and-deep-...
As a C++ dev, I have never run into the problem the post is describing. Upper and lowercase conversion has always worked just fine. Though then again, I don't fiddle with mixed unicode and non-unicode situations.
> Different words

Obviously

I meant people don't write "he's" as the possessive form of he. Hence they shouldn't write it's as the possessive form of it.
The court will tell them what it means eventually.

One cannot sign away individual rights that the state reserves control over, likewise an open-ended threat doesn't mean anything because you can simply just say "I thought it meant something else."

This is a game that can only be played by people with lawyers though.
As someone who doesn't follow the language, which recent events are you referring to?
Harold Daggett has also been credibly accused of having ties to the Mafia, which is especially consistent with the idea that the union is involved in drug trafficking.

> The ILA is striking right now in the hopes of getting a ~70% wage increase over the next 6 years, better healthcare benefits, and better retirement contribution.

And a permanent ban on automation, you forgot to mention that part. Also, the strike is on pause until January 15th.

> The truth is that they're fighting for chump change against an industry that's pulling in hundreds of billions in profit.

Ports aren’t private industry. They’re public infrastructure, owned by the public, and the ones that do turn a profit are a source of funding for public services.

> And the same goes for the Teamsters.

Teamsters are, among other things, a cop union.
I'm not categorically against it, but it needs to go into Python4, not a minor revision. It breaks too much.

(Plus, the suggested transition easement, "A tool will be provided to automatically update code to replace bare except: with except BaseException:", indicates a fundamental flaw in this approach: it's still trivial for developers to catch-and-kill exceptions. So we're strictly increasing the verbosity of the language without actually solving the problem. :( ).
For the sake of discussing it here: why would you need a SLAAC daemon?

Edit: My question wasn't so much why you'd want SLAAC as why you'd need a daemon for it. From https://www.openbsd.org/papers/florian_slaacd_bsdcan2018.pdf:

> Remove sending of router solicitations and processing of router advertisements from the kernel.

Oh, got it. That totally makes sense in an OpenBSD way.
This release of Ubuntu uses 6.11 which is about as fresh as anyone could hope for.
it's hard to compare without a control, but a few key points:
* none of the Baby Bells failed
* because they segmented regionally, integration was super important and you could argue paved the way for the modern internet
* consumer services under Bell was incredibly expensive and tightly controlled

In hindsight maybe they should have split up horizontally, nationalizing the natural monopoly components/infrastructure (ex: the physical lines)? It's interesting to see what looks like a reconsolidation of wireless now, I wonder what the future will look like.
With that PEP you can still do a quick "try: except:" it's just spelled "try: except Exception:"
For a friend I made this: https://en.hayovasweets.com/

It’s mostly list of markdowns and images in folders.
Everything else generates during deployment on GitHub:actions

It was simpler to show GitHub desktop rather than installing something like Wordpress machinery monster and spent hours to teach how to use it. Now the process is simple:

1. Create a folder

2. Put there markdown and images

3. Commit
AI is cleaning up at the nobel prizes!
My local hospital gets a deal from the local power company that they kick on their generators at peak demand times, and the power company pays them handsomely for it. The hospital gets to test their Emergency power works as expected, and the power company reduces their load by a few Megawatts for a few hours.
I see this a lot in Brazil, and English is not even our language!
I was told by a sibling that economies are a natural phenomenon so I have to conclude they don't have a telos. How do you resolve the conflict?
> the dogs were not killed but were buried there before their master died

Sure. There is still a massive difference between a burial for a King having someone or something buried with them and conducting the ritual entirely for a pet. (And looping back to OP, several cultures conducted funeral rites entirely for beloved pets. The Egyptians and Romans come to mind.)
I think it must somehow use a recent kernel, otherwise Lunar Lake wouldn't be supported?
Anything popular is going to attract an increasingly high-variance group of engineers. With such variance comes such PEPS.
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Technical analysis tool for moving averages, with real-time market data.
Really this is one of the more useless statistics. It's pretty much impossible to OD unless you're a toddler and you accidentally drink juice.

What matters is the affects small amounts of nicotine, repeatedly, have over time. Nicotine increases blood pressure and so it slowly destroys your cardiovascular system. Smoking is, of course, bad for your lungs.

The combination of lung damage and heart damage is deadly. Typically heart failure will require more oxygen in your blood to make up for the fact your heart doesn't work. But the lungs are bad at extracting oxygen when they have pulmonary damage.
It's almost certainly the scheduler, IMO.

> On average the Ubuntu 24.10 release was about 14% faster than Microsoft Windows 11 out-of-the-box on this Lunar Lake powered ASUS Zenbook S 14 laptop.

What else was the "Out-of-the-box" Windows installation trying to do while they were running the benchmark? Sitting here on my Windows 10 installation with nothing but Firefox and Task Manager open, there are dozens of things clamoring for the attention of the scheduler and using CPU:

https://i.imgur.com/NxBOBXm.png

Yeah, I've installed several of these services on purpose, but I've also uninstalled or inhibited a bunch of things that I didn't need.
Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices
He literally said he’s bullish on pure fp. Which means he is off writing pure fp. His own article about it never explicitly or implicitly implies a “pragmatic approach”.

I never said he said his email was completely outdated. He for sure implies it’s outdated and updates us on his views of inlining which I also mentioned.
Internally, it is a lot of prayer and meditation.

Externally, it is committing an amount of time I feel comfortable with to work on it every day. It can be one minute per day, but it has to be consistent.
> There’s no excuse.

Until mid-2000s there was no certainty Unicode will eventually defeat competitors. In real it havenʼt fully yet - GB2312 and Tron are still locally prevailing, and IBM still jogs with EBCDIC. But at its early times nobody was reasonably sure, and Java attempt could have failed as well. (More so Java approach for UCS-2 was wrong - already commented nearby.)
It always boils down to how many users you want to engage with your product.

The reality is that you can create a great product that engages with users, using transparent processes that can be tinkered by and with a ton of free customization features, you will lose a huge amount of market share to a competitor with a more simple interface (and probably a less efficient and more complex machinery behind it).

> As someone who is constantly learning new things to try and stay current, fights for the right to repair and uses FOSS whenever possible, I just can't get behind the thinking that brings is to the conclusion that marketers should be making these kinds of decisions based on convenience.

You and marketers have very different priorities and targets, of course they don't reach your same conclusion
I think there are a couple packages out there for using Websockets to proxy a tcp connection, and some of them support SOCKS. I think they all overload that Dialup function as a generic way of opening connections
How do you give $1M to a discovery?
Another thing I want but is completely missing from golang.org/x/crypto/ssh is compression support: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/31369
Free strtok!
He literally says he’s more bullish on pure fp. Read it. And I also wrote about where he still inlines.
Yes, but the good has to be extraordinary. If there's logic to it, in these cases they are predicting the good will come much later. Which is an incredibly difficult prediction to make.
You’re glossing over the most important part of the metaphor, which is the part where you’re not allowed to hire a different contractor.
With what OS's are doing for mitigating exploits these days for CPU (especially Intel), poor Windows schedulers, or historically bad power management, it's hard to pinpoint what's causing this.
This is what not having sane BDFL does to organization.

Only proper response is private email from sane BDFL similar to Linus email of "WE DON'T BREAK USERSPACE"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash , or much of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick , especially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle_(TV...

Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giver / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giver_(film)

Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film)

Or Nineteeneightyfour and so much more...(yawn)...

Or
Austria and German-speaking Switzerland, lists “Eva’s Blumenladen” (Eva’s Flower Shop) and “Peter’s Taverne” (Peter’s Tavern) as usable alternatives, though “Eva’s Brille” (“Eva’s glasses”) remains incorrect.

Why is 'Eva's Brille incorrect', but 'Eva's Blumenladen' ok?
OpenBSD at the Edge.
FreeBSD on the internal servers.
FreeBSD or Linux as a daily-driver. (I can't settle)

You are trying to decide what-OS to base your work on. That depends on what your work is.
If you are looking for cutting-edge? Go with Linux.
If you are looking for a 'whole-system' approach? {Open|Free}BSD

I'd say we need more details if you want a better answer.
the scheduler has been an issue for windows for quite some time... along with the built-in anti-virus (and ads).
Great thanks! Sent an email. Second child being born soon so I'll have some (sleep deprived) time to work on this for the next 6 months!
It's the Biden administration pushing this so it's likely a Harris administration would keep on the same course. Trump and the tech industry hate each other so it's far from a given that he would be a typical Republican in favoring a large corporation like Google. Looks like Google is simply out of friends.
some mba profs like ethan mollick or steve blank have become
"cheerleaders" for ai/ml.
I saw it in a Home Depot in the US once. It was father's day and there was a sign that read, "Dad's Love Tools". Of course they meant to say, "Dads Love Tools".

I thought it was particularly funny and embarrassing for the store, but I couldn't get the clerk at the store to understand what was wrong.
Coal (and even wood!) powered cars actually existed long before Ford, but didn't take off because they were too heavy and unwieldly. The Model T was the result of a century of optimization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas-Joseph_Cugnot
they might as well add semicolons while they are at it
Definitely going to want to use Tree-sitter, not regex. That regex just broke my docstrings.
Because the people writing the game did not have infinite time and budget, and spent their resources on making the game rather than the engine. That allowed them to a) finish the game at all, b) make a game of bigger scope and higher quality. Maybe (just maybe!) they could have finished a game when rolling their own. But it would not have been the Hollow Knight we know.

It's great that you're enthusiastic about writing your own engine. I'm kind of in the same boat: I'm opinionated on software engineering and architecture, and my opinions don't line up with any of the existing engines. So I roll my own. But it's not actually an efficient use of my time, and as a result I don't write as many games as I'd prefer to, and the projects often end up down-scoped from the original vision just to finish them. It's a suboptimal way to work, but it's the one I have to use since any time I try using an engine I give up in disgust and get nothing done.

What's not so great is that you're ignoring the very obvious upsides of using an engine, pretending it's only downsides, and pushing your personal preference on other people as the obviously correct way to do things. Your bafflement on why anyone would use an engine is showing a distinct lack of empathy. Not everyone thinks like you, or has your priorities. You want to write a toolset and demonstrate your mastery of that toolset; some others just want to make a game. And you have no business telling them that their goal is invalid and they should instead copy your priorities.
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Motivation and focus are different. Your thing sounds like motivation.

For me, it was about narrowing down my scope of "hobbies". I have tried so many things and now (approaching 40 years old) I can be more certain about which categories of things are important to me and I am more honest about how many I can juggle: family, work, fitness, and maaaaybe something else a few hours per month.

As long as I'm still playing in one of those categories, I don't worry too much about any specific project.

E.g. For fitness, I may want to try to do 40 pull-ups per day for a month. If I only last a week before I stop doing that, I am mentally okay with that AS LONG AS I am still doing something else for my fitness.
That's like changing the spelling of Espresso to Expresso
Matt really wants to dig himself into a deeper and deeper hole, huh?

There’s still something entertaining to this for sure, but it also hurts so much. Wordpress used to be a respectable project, Automattic a respectable company and Matt a respectable person. Maybe it was too good to last.

The only way any of this (already serve) damage can somewhat be undone is Matt stepping back (as a sudden change of mind seems unlikely). Please don’t keep making it worse.
What you're describing is called fixed point arithmetic, a super cool technique I wish more programmers knew about.

Proper finance related code should use it, but in my experience in that industry it doesn't seem very common unless you're running mainframes.

Funnily enough, I've seen a lot more fixed point arithmetic in software rasterizers than anywhere else. FreeType, GDI, WPF, WARP (D3D11 reference rasterizer) all use it heavily.
No natural language is actually 100% phonetic. Romanian is no exception. Romanian spelling and pronunciation are close to phonetic, but the same is true of German.
That one's a bit mean given that data does have a distinct plural, it just happens to be spelled the same because whoever came up with english didn't really grok the phonetic alphabet.
I didn't think of that. I just thought that he deserved credit. It never occurred to me this might bring trouble to his family. I'll take your advice.

It's also nice to know another of Hal's friends.
Thank you for your reply. Your reminder opened my eyes.
I play sc2 on Ubuntu nightly. Except for the battle.net being super slow to load the game play is insanely good.
I'm not GP, but IMHO the alternative will be stagnation on web standards.

Normally I would think that a bad thing, but as the "progress" nowadays is becoming more and more user-hostile and developer-friendly (as both a user and a developer, I can see both side here), I would prefer stagnation to progress.

I don't want Web Integrity or manifest v3 or any of that crap. That's a blatant transfer of power from the user to the developer, and the latter is already substantially more powerful than the user. We need to go the other way.
So what kind of setup do you suggest for low-maintenance personal / small business use?
Frankly, it's really crazy how much of the modern web is controlled by google.

The most common kind of consumer-facing computer is a mobile device, and the most common mobile OS worldwide is owned by Google.

The most common way that people interact with the web is either mobile apps or a web browser, and Google-owned Chrome/Chromium has basically eaten the world.

The most common way that people find new information on the web is a search engine. Once again, Google's namesake search engine is the unambiguous leader in terms of market share by a landslide.

Obviously there's more: YouTube, Google Maps and Waze, GSuite/Drive/Docs. But it's these first three verticals that smell the most monopolistic to me.
I lived in Germany on two occasions and regularly consume German media. English words are all over the German vernacular, to the point that it's really, really annoying.
Kamal v2.2.0
My intro to programming was that I wanted to be a game developer in the 90s. Carmack and the others at Id were my literal heroes.

Back then, a lot of code optimizations was magic to me. I still just barely understand the famous inverse square root optimization in the Quake III Arena source code. But I wanted to be able to do what those guys were doing. I wanted to learn assembly and to be able to drop down to assembly and to know where and when that would help and why.

And I wasn't alone. This is because these optimizations are not obvious. There is a "mystique" to them. Which makes it cool. So virtually ALL young, aspiring game programmers wanted to learn how to do this crazy stuff.

What did the old timers tell us?

Stop. Don't. Learn how to write clean, readable, maintainable code FIRST and then learn how to profile your application in order to discover the major bottlenecks and then you can optimize appropriately in order of greatest impact descending.

If writing the easiest code to maintain and understand also meant writing the most performant code, then the concept of code optimization wouldn't even exist. The two are mutually exclusive, except in specific cases where it's not and then it's not even worth discussing because there is no conflict.

Carmack seems to acknowledge this in his email. He realizes that inlining functions needs to be done with careful judgment, and the rationale is both performance and bug mitigation. But that if inlining were adopted as a matter of course, a policy of "always inline first", the results would quickly be an unmaintainable, impossible to comprehend mess that would swing so far in the other direction that bugs become more prominent because you can't touch anything in isolation.

And that's the bane of software development: touch one thing and end up breaking a dozen other things that you didn't even think about because of interdependence.

So we've come up with design patterns and "best practices" that allow us to isolate our moving parts, but that has its own set of trade-offs which is what Carmack is discussing.

Being a 26 year veteran in the industry now (not making games btw), I think this is the type of topic that you need to be very experienced to be able to appreciate, let alone to be able to make the judgment calls to know when inlining is the better option and why.
I literally could care less. If people cant handle this alternative way of communicating, thats there problem.
Hey guys I've been following you for a while, what you do is amazing! So glad that your live now, the product looks great just as I imagined!
Also quite common in Germany. I choose to interpret them as scare quotes implying irony and smile to myself at Bob's "Big" Bookstore and the grocer selling "fresh" fish.
Thank you for your reply. I Come ON!
Could not disagree more.

"Source Available" sounds like what it should.

It communicates that the code is public, so you can see it's high quality, actively worked on, and nothing nefarious. However, it's not meant to be a community project or used commercially for free.

"Fair Source" is abundantly less clear. It implies some sense of "fairness" which can mean drastically different things to people.
The upside is that it would only really impact their interaction with that specific site, not with anything else (unless there's opportunity for lateral moves because of SSO or the site hosts email and so they could hack password resets or something).

My dream scenario would be this happening to an in-company administrative user with the keys to the kingdom. Imagine an ad-ridden site like Fandom.com getting hacked in that way.
No kidding about pip. The dependency resolver change several years ago was a similar terrible move to the PEP being considered here. It broke so much legitimately working code for no good reason; just paternalism from the core devs. The change pushed my team to stop using pip at all for dependency management.
See, this is exactly what I was referring to. It's "obvious" that these things happen as a result of DEI, but you provide no evidence for it. Some anecdotes, sure, but I want to see how it plays out broadly - I'm sure there are cases where it's good and cases where it's bad if you just pick anecdotes from the data! I also think calling out censorship for this is lazy, to be honest. I really doubt a topic as contentious as DEI has no useful data to prove your point.
Thanks so much!! Appreciated!