skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same fund that bought GM, Freddy Mac, (etc. etc.) and sold it off for a profit.

Now with that being said, I'm against the idea of a US-based sovereign wealth fund. But it wouldn't be unprecedented at all. EDIT: I think I can see a sovereign "strategic initiative", like something to ensure semiconductor dominance, or other forms of technological innovations. But not necessarily for the purpose of making money like a sovereign wealth fund would try to do.

USA should definitely fund research and providing infrastructure, and maybe even subsidize a company or two. But I'm not sure if the USA wants to be the owners of many companies in the market.
Our current understanding seems to be that the electrical activity of the brain is what maintains the mind-consciousness system. (From a physical/materialist pov)
At that point your brain is “off”. Having a non functioning heart doesn’t seem that noteworthy in this context given that we do straight up heart transplants.
For anybody who is curious, this is colloquially referred-to as "unreal mode": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_mode
Sounds like they will be in trouble in 50 years when their current userbase is dead.
I suspect GDPR would have been sufficient threat since not all people involved in a scanned email were guaranteed to be Gmail users, so gaining consent would have been problematic.
Fun fact, a few of my friends and even family work for NSO and until recently they used WhatsApp for their own internal communication.

They literally moved off it a few days ago when shit hit the fan into more secure software because Facebook is targeting NSO employees.
Snake games are my go-to when I learn new languages, it's always under 1000
lines of code and can usually be done without libraries. In not a lot of
time you can learn how the language:

- does timers
- does sleeping and/or threads
- handles user input
- gets some kind of output to screen
- provides basic data structures
- writes and loads files for high scores

There are a lot of things that I like about the original Snake that most
people don't put into their hobby projects:

- There is a delay right before you hit the wall.
If you are playing at the fastest speed and barrel towards the wall,
it slows down to the slowest speed when you are on the final square
before game over.
I always loved this because the it made the most deadly obstacle the
snake body which is the one that you yourself created.

- When it polled input it stored one of each press.
If you pressed up then left, and the next tick the snake would turn
up, and the next tick the snake would turn left.

- There are only four parts of the screen max that are updated each
tick, the new snake head is drawn, the previous snake head is drawn as
a body, the previous snake butt is cleared, and maybe a new egg is
drawn.
Very common to see a snake game draw the entire screen, or redraw the
entire snake on each tick. Super frustrating to have a game get start
to stutter more and more as your snake gets longer.

- You could play using two buttons instead of four.
The game could be played by using buttons 2=up 8=down 4=left 6=right.
But it could also be played using buttons 1=up-or-left and
9=down-or-right because you can only change from your current
direction to two other directions since you can't have a button to go
the opposite direction, and you don't need a button to go the same
direction.
It was never super intuitive though, a "right turn" or "left turn"
button would make more sense.

The only critique I have for this is your snake almost doubles speed when
you move up or down which is pretty jarring.
I've been under GA, and yeah, first you feel cold in your vein where they start plasma infusion (without the drug yet I believe) and then you wake up in post op. No sense of time.

GA is insufficient demonstration though -- it is possible that memory recording and time keeping parts are down (there are several ways brain keeps time iirc), but other parts are working. I think there is always some electrical brain activity under GA, so something is still going on, just not enough to track time.
Thanks for the reply and best of luck in your endeavors! I've never been very good with Haskell, but I may jump into Perl6 (Raku) soon.
We can't know what interests you. Have a rummage through Github or one of the alternatives till you find a project (or even several) that will fit your 'itch'.

https://itsfoss.com/github-alternatives/
No, but we always love user stories! Shoot me email at mike (at) timescale.com
When const generics are fully implemented (they are partially usable on nightly rust now) this will enable an even stronger version of this pattern, allowing you the full power of enums to represent the state.

enum SenderState {
ReadyToSendHello,
HasSentHello,
HasSentNumber,
HasReceivedNumber
}

Sender<const S: SenderState> {
...
}

impl Sender<{SenderState::ReadyToSendHello}>{
...
}

One can then give the individual states extra parameters:

HasSentNumber {
number: u32
}

(Note that in this case that doesn't make much sense, the number that is sent is more associated data then an actual type parameter. There is no real difference, at the type level, between HasSentNumber { number: 3 } and HasSentNumber { number: 6 }, and the compiler generating two types for this would be unnecessary. It is only an example of the syntax.)
She would probably agree that the government is made up of officials that we elect though right?

So what if the people in the majority party want to usurp power from the minority citizens. Even if only for the reason that they want to keep a 'dangerous party' from taking power. Practicalities about search techniques don't matter in such circumstances. Just imagine a party that is ready to punch the minority party members in the face. Such a party wouldn't think twice about a party member taking the liberty to search suspicious non-party members...

In such cases, it'd be nice if no matter who's in power, there are some laws that must be followed. That's pretty much what the bill of rights is about and it includes protection against unreasonable search. The 4th's a good one because it limits a majorities ability to overpower a minority.
I didn't mean it in that way. Instead of sitting idly on my laptop, it might at least be useful for someone, and if it really proves to be beneficial, then people might contribute to it. Yeah, not denying your point, it does require huge effort from some people to get it into a mature production-ready stage.
You are correct in that my concerns are not primarily food safety although still a concern. I am more interested in food security. When whole countries are in the thrall of companies like Bayer/Monsanto because their farmers have become dependent on these companies' seeds partly due to 'well-meaning' initiatives like golden rice can feed millions, thats where i say 'hol up'
Nice! I'm the same, with a dozen kids so far.

I don't think one can determine if the trait is or isn't cultural by guessing. How could you possibly know the origin of your own mental preferences? Even political affiliation, which sure looks cultural at first glance, has been shown to be under genetic influence.
>The whole fabric/culture of the country is predicated on immigration and has been literally since its founding

And look how much trouble diversity has caused. It's literally tearing the fabric of the country apart. Compare that to Finland where things are much more smooth. As much as people tout the benefits of diversity (great food) they hate to point at the detriments: decrease social trust, friction (look at how people view the criminal justice system, affirmative action, etc), also people vote along racial lines (non-whites vote overwhelming democrat and whites vote republican), certain races commit more crimes (blacks and hispanics commit more crimes than whites and asians). All of this could be avoided if the society lacked diversity.
You mention any of this and people lose their minds and you lose your job. Luckily no one can touch me since I run my own company and I live in Nigeria so it doesn't matter (tiblar.com).

Even in my own country look at what diversity has caused. There's so many ethnic groups conflicting with each other. Or look at what diversity did in Iraq since the British drew arbitrary borders.
Has this ever affected anything before? Just about every organization has "we are ethical" in some document somewhere. "We always comply with local regulations" is often spouted by companies immediately after being busted for breaking regulations.
Swift also has a GC by CS definition of automatic memory management algorithms.
There was that time Apple “acquired” NeXT...

But for all n where n > 1, no.
> These tools keep authoritarians in power

Indeed. I think I covered that in "criminal" category, but perhaps I should have been more explicit.
One of my biggest issues with terminal based file managers like Ranger or nnn (https://github.com/jarun/nnn), is that it's not immediately clear which files I'm currently looking at, since it's all text-based (duh!).
But I loved the extensibility and keyboard driven nature of the terminal-based file manager. That's something which other GUI-based filemanagers are lacking in that, except fman.
Far Manager looks interesting to me, since it seems to be allowed extensively customized too. Will give a try soon.
I would argue facebook isn't a 100% opt in service at all. When political advertising on facebook won Trump the election, that changed the global landscape for everyone, regardless whether they were on facebook or not. It's like saying the automotive industry or the oil industry are a 100% opt in service, so why regulate them either? Facebook has as much of a tailpipe as any other commercial enterprise with effects felt by everyone.
We are unlikely to be sending billions in to space to set up colonies. There will be ample prospective migrants, if it ever becomes a real possibility, whether there are 100m or 10bn earthlings.
So if the population grows from 1 (in units of 8 billion, say) to (1 + A), and the productivity per person goes from 1 to (1 + B), then the world economy goes from 1 to (1 + A) * (1 + B). If the population doesn't grow, then the economy only grows to (1 + B).

As you say, so what? Is the world economy some kind of deity, that we are here to serve its needs rather than our own? If each of us are the same (1 + B) better off, why do we care whether the global economy grew more or less?

As Edward Abbey said, "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." If the growth actually leaves people better off, that's a positive. But if it just makes bigger numbers on a page, what's the point?
It's blindingly obvious that modernity is applying strong natural selection to humanity and that, over time, the world will come to be dominated by the kind of people who have children. In order for that not to be the case, you have to imagine a world without inheritance of characteristics. It's not even necessary to imagine genetic inheritance: even cultural transmission of fecundity from generation to generation would suffice for shifting the distribution of personality traits in the world's population away from whatever depresses birthrate below replacement and towards whatever promotes high birthrates. If you want to know what the world will look like in a few generations, look at who's having kids now.

The "lol seven billion is enough" comments completely miss the point. Fertility will recover once inherited fecundity spreads through the population. One way or another, we're going to hit the Earth's (or solar system's) carrying capacity soon, probably in a few centuries at the longest. Do you want that future era to be full of people like you? If so, you need to figure out why people like you aren't reproducing now.

To imagine that fertility isn't heritable is to deny all of evolution. The drive to reproduce is the oldest and strongest urge of all. It's ubiquitous in the tree of life. It's really bizarre to me that people don't see this dynamic. Of course evolution applies to people: have you ever met a parent and a child?
I don't think that actually holds. I hate to trot out the typical example, but Norway seems to be doing pretty well on the social welfare side with a fertility rate much lower than that of the US. They just have very different priorities than the US does in terms of taxation, wealth distribution, and of course deficit spending vs. creating a sovereign wealth fund.

I don't see any reason why the US couldn't maintain social welfare programs in a decreasing population scenario provided the decrease is gradual, productivity rises as fast as the population goes down, and we actually taxed people appropriately and got our expenditure priorities under control.
increased demand will drive more automation in that sector

self driving cars may be limited but they will be a great solution for the elderly
"Obfuscation" and "delusions of grandeur" are practically synonyms for ML and Data "Science" in this industry. I've been around for a while and I've never quite seen something as over-hyped and hyper-glamorized as these two specializations.
That's a surprise. Hotels definitely do overbook however they'll usually not leave you stranded, they "walk" you to a competitor property that they then pay for. Here's a whole write-up on it [1] from the New York Times. It's been going on forever but you may only have noticed it more recently as occupancy rates are up. I've yet to be "walked" but it does happen. Nothing particularly sketchy going on.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/business/hotels-overbooke...
> I consider 'illegals' to be a derogatory term used by racists

You consider wrong. Doubly wrong since race has nothing to do with it (there are illegal immigrants of all races, just as there are people of all races on all sides of the immigration debate).

> If so that is an illegal activity so maybe you are also an 'illegal'?

Within the context of driving, yes. You can be called "illegal driver" or "criminal driver" if your behavior raised to the level of a crime (e.g. something like DUI and causing a crash). But we aren't discussing driving here, so no.

> Maybe I am way off base?

Yes, you are.
Can be translated also as "to save" or "to keep for yourself only and do not show to other people". Is a polysemic word.
This was also the top-ads color for Google Search in the 2010 visual redesign. We put it in as an inside joke; it lasted for a couple months before A/B testing optimized away from it.
Heavy metal toxicity is basically the same as radiation exposure. It's extremely hard to purge the body of heavy metals after you're exposed, and it's one of the reasons plutonium is as dangerous as it is - because it gets incorporated into your bones. It would be surprisingly safe if it just passed right through you (hence the reason it can be safely handled).

You don't just "get over" heavy metal poisoning. It has long term effects exactly like radiation, and is more insidious because you can't just wave a geiger counter around to find it.
I don't think the immigrant detention centers measure up to the definition at, for example, the Encylopedia Britannica:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/concentration-camp
I have been rejected for diversity reasons. But I'm not ignorant and selfish enough to assume that any and everything that hurts me personally must inherently be wrong.

If you don't see why any company would benefit having diversity then I don't know what to tell you. That's like saying you don't see any benefit to a company's employees having diverse ideas and backgrounds.
Maybe you're culpable, but not me. I've never voted for any politician that voted for the Iraq war, and I wasn't around for Vietnam.

I advocate for the peaceful dissolution of the federal government because I believe it's unfixable and unaccountable.

I believe the de-facto two-party system is illegitimate.
Are you a fellow Tanarus refugee? I miss that game so much. I had the most flags in total in that game!
I am just confused that NSO are getting all the flak for this when there are many bigger players in the market (like Verint) peacefully happily doing the same thing for years.

Of course, I don't think this particular report is correct (I am sure the US spies on its allies like all big countries but I doubt it would need NSO and given the US regulates the body that regulates who NSO is allowed to sell to - I doubt it)
True, you might be right. It might be using an abstract notion of control groups internally (learned through watching and playing so many games), capped at the typical control group cap, in which case maybe it's not an advantage. But maybe it is able to have much more fine-grained control over every single unit, in which case it probably is an advantage.
I think the trick here is have people talk through what it does, how and why (as in what are the tradeoffs, what other approaches could have been taken, etc).

You can't fake this. Or to put it better, even if the code isn't yours and you can do this well, it doesn't even matter that the code isn't yours as in doing this you by definition have the skills and knowledge to reimplement it anyway.
_Factorman_ by Matt Ginsberg, is a thriller based on the premise that a researcher solves P=NP.

https://www.amazon.com/Factor-Man-Matt-Ginsberg/dp/099975711...

Daniel Suarez' Daemon and the sequel Freedom(TM)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1524741892
Google has some intriguing offerings with Cloud Run [0] and their App Engine suite [1]. I know it's not a catch-all solution but Cloud Run sounds appealing as you can bring any Docker image and have it run in a few different supported environments.

[0]: https://cloud.google.com/run/
[1]: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/
Gorilla is one of the few simple, efficent, _lossless_ algorithms that compress binary data.

Tricks such as renormalizing floats in base-10 (which I believe VictoriaMetrics implements) while great when they work, potentially truncates lower-order digits.

Lossiness is not a decision we're willing to make for our users unilaterally. And, as Gorilla is one the default compression algorithms we employ, it needs to be one that is correct in all cases.

Incidentally, we experimented with the binary equivalent of the renormalization algorithm, and it performed on-par with Gorilla in our tests.
You are correct. As someone who used to be on very restrictive visas for a while - your job is not “just a job” anymore. It was very much a source of constant stress for me knowing that political shifts at work or a terrible boss could very well send you packing in a matter of days.
I remember the movie about LIS.. I couldn't bear to watch it. 6 years of it is beyond insane.
> On top of that, everybody has been trying to murder Jews during the entire history, so there's a lot of natural selection.

It doesn't seem plausible that war or murder leads to a positive force on someone's character or natural ability. There are many great tragedies where the flower of a nation's manhood has been lost in war and left the country in a worse off position to grow it's populace. The Battle of the Somme for one.

Most religions and ethnic groups has at least one persecution story if not centuries of them, I don't see the evidence that it leads to a uniform positive increase in outcomes.
Question: Suppose I wanted to replace my apartment with a black hole. I need about 1300 square feet of area, so how much mass do I need?

Answer: About 350 earth masses.

Question: After thinking about it, living on a black hole is clearly impractical, but what if I want to replace my heating system with one? What size black hole will produce a comfortable temperature of 70 F?

Answer: Roughly the mass of Ceres.

Question: I want to go see what an event horizon looks like up close, so what size black hole is needed for the gravity to be 1G at its "surface" for optimal sightseeing?

Answer: About a trillion solar masses. It might be a little tricky finding or making one that large, as the largest known in galaxy centers are on the order of 10^10, not 10^12.
Might be your roommate plays rough with the cat and it thinks all humans like being swiped at. Some cat owners are surprisingly incompetent...
"High resolution". Article has these scaled down to 320 x 240.

Even the "originals" are only 1020 × 1091. I'm not sure that counts as high resolution these days.

If your title says high-resolution and you fail that miserably maybe you need to rethink
By that definition, everything is marketing (which makes the term pretty meaningless).

Clearly there's a massive difference between what Sun did and what AT&T did.
Damnit, yes.

I've edited my comment in this thread, posted a reply to the earlier one.
That doesn't seem true?
Short-term memory is encoded in transient electrical patterns, but long term memory definitely is not. You definitely don't lose your personhood if you suffer an interruption to short term memory, or else everyone who's ever had a seizure is already dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory#Long-term_memory
> With a Go program one just drops a statically compiled binary in $PATH and it just works.

Until one of the statically compiled dependencies needs a security fix.

Then people realize why shared objects where invented.
Using BigQuery JavaScript UDFs to Analyze Firefox Telemetry for Fun and Profit
Facebook personal vendetta against NSO employees
It used to be "illegal aliens" I think? That's the shortened form.

Unfortunately any word used to describe a population that people don't like will stop being a descriptor and become a slur if it's used long enough.
Android / Linux hooking framework (OpenSource)
I'm wondering how much could be gained if one used all possible optimizations: e.g. by analyzing the data flow graph - expressed using DSL - and generating native node programs, using CPU thread pinning and user space network stack (like ScyllaDB does [1]).

[1] https://www.scylladb.com/product/technology/
What's interesting about that is the fact that it seems to be only men affected by rising infertility [1].

[1] https://www.livescience.com/38877-infertility-rates-drop-uni...
There's a substantial difference between the carrying capacity of the planet and specific problems related to resource mismanagement.

The idea climate change wouldn't be an issue with "less people" is absurd. "less people" don't suddenly create viable electric cars and fusion power.
NB: that should be "&kd=-1", not "fd".

ddg ()
{
w3m https://duckduckgo.com/lite?q="$*&kd=-1"
}
That's basically how I did it, too. Teaching martial arts classes 3 to 5 times a week, for 3 hours a night (though that was many years and many beers ago). My coworkers remark on how well I speak in public, and while I get that from their perspective it's a scary thing, to me it's just another job.

If you're in a reasonably sized city, there are probably dozens of tech meetups looking for content. Just start hanging out and you'll start seeing opportunities to talk. Take them.

Also, when you're just starting out, stick to topics you know inside out. Only write enough notes to remind yourself of what you want to talk about. And then just talk to everyone. Don't make it a "presentation". Too much detail and you might get worried about sticking to the material. Just wing it.