skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for sharing your experience! I'd be very curious to hear more about your experience in doing GPGPU work in Rust - it was my understanding that there was virtually no tooling, libraries or support for that kind of thing beyond the existence of the C FFI.

On the broader point, I suspect a large part of the reason we've had such contrasting experiences is just a radically different mindset behind the C++ codebases we've dealt with. Wrongly freed or out of scope arrays scream of exactly the kind of C++ code Rust was designed to address, and as far as I can tell it is indeed great at doing that. On the opposite extreme, when you have statically determined sizes and bounds, all allocations happen at startup and nothing ever gets freed, that entire class of issues simply doesn't arise in the first place. The reason why the overwhelming majority of the bugs I debug are either silly typos or plain logic errors isn't because I'm particularly good at this, it's just a different approach to programming that's easy to pull off in simulation code (or embedded systems, or game engines), but probably rather more difficult in other kinds of applications.

Anyway, I'm glad you're enjoying Rust and I hope it'll have more of a scientific / numerics / GPGPU ecosystem in the future. More viable languages can only be a good thing for us computational scientists.
In percentage terms? You realize Bill Gates literally has a multi-million dollar tax bill every year, right?

Even if you cheat taxes egregiously, and even if your effective federal tax rate is only 15% -- when you have $70Bn in wealth, your income (cheated to extremes) is still going to be at least in the hundreds of millions. 15% of that is still 10s of millions of dollars.

And as others pointed out, if you're going to pick fights with billionaires, Bill Gates probably isn't the best place to start. You would be hard pressed to convince many people here he's been a net-negative to human civilization.
Me: Firefox on a mac, and it took me some time to realise I could scroll.
> "Of the top 100 vulnerabilities reported for QEMU:

> - 65 were not guest exploitable

> [...]

Which leaves about 30 that presumably were guest exploitable.

Don't get me wrong -- QEMU is useful. As a "kitchen sink" solution that runs anything, anywhere, with any useful combination of emulated {devices,processors,systems}.

However, this is also its biggest weakness. Which is why Google and Amazon all run their own custom VMMs for their IaaS services.

The microvm machine type as described here is a great step to improve this situation. The next step in my book would be to reconfigure QEMU's build system to allow building a binary that only supports the devices provided by microvm, and nothing else.
Not that anyone here cares, but this is my favorite movie.
You realize you're talking about one of the highest-impact philanthropists in modern history, right?
> especially the Uber from a few years back

Would you say you liked it better then compared to now?
Selection Sort in a nutshell – how, when and where
Find things in common so you can stay busy together without talking constantly. It gives your mind time to consider what and how to say things without being too vulnerable too fast. Ponder what was said. Go slower. Silence is OK.

Friend dates. My gf and I have started double dating those we like. You can listen while the other two talk. Being quiet with someone can be very comfortable or unnerving.
I know this stuff scares the heck out of everyone, but how is this really different from:

- Hiring childhood development specialists

- Pre-K programs

- Kindergarten enrollment

- Providing kids with excellent nutrition

- Providing kids with a home that is safe and free from abuse

Every single factor listed above is demonstrably correlated with lifetime intelligence, body development, mental/physical health and athleticism. Is it fair that some kids get to grow up in a safe and loving environment, while other kids worldwide grow up in malnourished or abusive households. Is it fair that some kids get best-in-class schooling and attention thanks to rich parents, while others are left watching TV all day. If we're going to ban genetic profiling because it is unfair, should we be banning all of the above as well.

Instead of trying to pull everyone down to the lowest common denominator, perhaps we should instead focus on pulling everyone up to their highest potential. I for one welcome a world of universal access to genetic improvements, and generations of kids who are healthier and smarter than we can ever hope to be.
One word: signatures.

All QR codes or whatever the phone is displaying or transmitting should be signed by a trusted authority. The checking device can verify whether it’s been signed. You can’t generate a valid signature unless you have access to the private key that’s supposed to be signing them.
Wealth taxes are a bad idea. We already have one (inflation), which is a nasty way to bypass the electorate and hits the poor hardest, but I don't think an explicit one is any better. It seems to come from the Sanders-and-company position of "billionaires should not exist"; many appear to believe that morally, even were everyone else well-off, someone having that much more is simply wrong. _Why_ is a "wealth tax" any better? Why shouldn't I be worried about the precedent of the government taking someone's assets? This seems bad for the same reasons civil forfeiture is bad.

Secondarily, I fail to understand the defense of such a policy by the "fair share" argument. Can someone explain? Here's how I see it: I am splitting a pizza among myself and seven friends. I cut it into eight pieces. My "fair share" is one piece, and does not change because someone else is hungrier. However, what the "fair share" of the "one percent" is, according to some people, seems to scale based on how many programs said people want to implement and how much they cost. Before anyone goes after my analogy, please excuse it; I understand that it doesn't fit perfectly, that not everyone has the same number of slices to start with, that the pie is not of constant size, ad nauseum. But even if I am re-distributing pizza from those who have twice as much to those who have half as much, the "just" amount doesn't fluctuate based on the relative hunger of the people in question; why, then, should the "fair share" increase because there are more things which people wish to fund? The taxes seem to be devised to keep up with the policies, rather than the government taking each person's "fair share" and doing as much as possible.

Effectively, it seems as though some people believe every dollar past a certain amount is part of a cash reserve with which politicians may fund things. This doesn't really seem "fair".
Herpes is trivial medically, and HPV only has a minor health impact.
The “exists” state is dynamic (something else in the system could be in the process of deleting the file since it was last checked). It’s more reliable if you don’t check in advance and simply try to open the file every time you need it. You handle errors while opening the file.
My guess from the NTSB description is that their tracker had object category as part of the track information, and that detections of one category weren't allowed to match a track of another category. This is useful if, say, you are tracking a bicycle and a pedestrian next to each other. When you go to reconcile detections with tracks, you know that a bicycle isn't going to suddenly turn into a pedestrian, this rule helps to keep you from switching the tracks of the two objects.

Unfortunately that also means that when you have a person walking a bicycle that might be recognized as either one, this situation happens, and they initialize the velocity of a newly tracked object as zero.

Even this though shouldn't have been enough to sink them, because the track should have had a mean-zero velocity, but with high uncertainty. If the uncertainty were carried forward into the planner, it would have noted a fairly high collision probability no matter what lane the vehicle was in, and the only solution would be to hit the brakes or disconnect.

Furthermore, if you've initiated a track on a bicycle, and there's no nearby occlusion, and suddenly the bicycle disappears, this should be cause for concern in the car and lead to a disconnect, because bicycles don't just suddenly cease to exist. They can go out of frame or go behind something but they don't just disappear.
Swift Numerics
Most of that million works at companies that started out years ago as one ambitious person's dream of becoming rich. It's a long pipeline and the chance of getting through is tiny, but that's how the economy works. If you eliminate that incentive, you will surely enjoy a short-term boost followed by a global economic decline that will be much harder to fix.
Well, the thing about the SID in particular, is that it relied upon imperfections in the MOS silicon fabrication process to produce certain analogue effects (a fairly common approachh in electronic instruments in the 80s). Problem is, that as processes improved it gets harder to produce noise in this way. The later generations of SID produced a “cleaner” sound, but not faithful to the original to the point that certain effects exploting these imperfections (eg some funky sound sample techniques) were broken on the newer version. I’ve read somewhere that it isn't possible to produce the SID at all with modern technology because processes are just so “clean” now.
Couldn't you get a bank to loan you the money with your shares as collateral?
Add something that will show people how the system works. A short demo or video that just shows the input and the results. That will cut down on the number of users using the service just for curiosity.

Also, keep in mind that only a small percentage of the people that use the system will signup to pay so don't be surprise of the number of people trying the system for free versus signups.
To communicate with Bluetooth readers instead of using QR code scanning.
You can move pensions and you can sack the manager and replace them as one of the biggest UK DB ones has done
Hopefully the link has to be opened on the browser that initiated the original login request.
20% is long term capital gains rate if you make more than $453k
I'm pretty sure that and our 2-3x inflation annual increases in our already-insanely-high healthcare spending are going to lead to civil unrest in the next 30-40 years. On the shorter side for the healthcare spending (no way we can keep up the current rate of increases even 20 more years without an actual, honest-to-god revolt) and somewhat later for the failing retirement system (such as it is). I'm a lot more worried about those than climate change, which we are for-sure not going to address anyway if those aren't dealt with.
> When people say infrastructure they usually mean roads.

[citation needed]

Granted, I can only speak for myself, but when I hear the word "infrastructure" I'm picturing a smörgåsbord of different things:

- Roads

- Bridges

- Tunnels

- Rail lines

- Canals

- Levees

- Electrical delivery (power lines, distribution boxes, etc.)

- Telecommunications delivery (data lines, radio towers, etc.)

- Fuel delivery (pipelines, refineries, storage, etc.)

- Water delivery (pipelines, aqueducts, reservoirs, wells, desalination plants, etc.)

- etc.

This is consistent with Wikipedia's definition of "hard infrastructure" (as opposed to "soft infrastructure", which focuses on institutional structures/organizations).
The really cool thing about this is it highlights how complex something as simple as a filesystem can be in a browser.

Seriously, over 20 ways to backend a filesystem!!!

Really really incredible!
Prior discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1438472
Taxing the 1% more heavily isn't really the same thing as eliminating the 1% though is it? And taxing wealth over a certain limit, which is what the person you were replying to is probably getting at, solves your problem taxing income preventing people from becoming wealthy in the first place.
It's been a while since I was in college, but I got through mostly with loans, and also some part-time and intern work, but college costs were also lower back then. The loans only went so far; it wasn't an unlimited source of funds, so I still had to be judicious in how I spent it, so I had roommates most of the time, for instance, even though I would have preferred not to.

As for your public university, I really have to wonder why these poor students went there, as it sounds like a pretty terrible school. What kind of public university is only manageable via driving? I went to 2 different, very large, state universities, and both were quite manageable with walking or biking. I biked at both so I could get around faster. Even in America's car culture, both these schools were definitely not set up for driving to class; they had parking lots at the edges of campus, which were frequently overcrowded, and you still had to walk a long way to class, so it made more sense to avoid this unless you were a non-traditional student. Dorms were most certainly within walking distance of everything (though again, biking was faster, though not for everyone). The meal plans however were expensive and a rip-off, though at my freshman/sophomore school it was optional so I didn't bother, and got food from other places for less money. Anyway, maybe these kids should have chosen a better university, namely one that doesn't require a car. Cars are very expensive to own and maintain when you're poor, and college students don't usually have the tools or knowledge (or time!) to save money by doing their own work. That one thing alone probably would have made all the difference for your friends who dropped out due to finances.
Tallness is in and of itself will get you more heart disease since it put more strain on the heart to pump blood ever further. And tallness as an attractive trait only works in comparison, if everyone was 7 foot high, then they are all of average height, and equally attractive from that perspective.
It's really hard for me to comprehend how people imagine that this is a reasonable attitude to have. It strikes me as willfully ignorant, entitled, and delusional.

People who have this stance typically seem to understand "business transactions", i.e. two parties exchanging something that the other values, so I guess I'll try to keep it simple:

If you exist in a country with internet to post a comment on HN, you have taken something of value from the government of that country, and it's fair and reasonable to compensate them for that value by paying taxes. The cost of those services is never 0, and so the tax should never be 0.
https://diginomica.com/parliament-pressure-and-panic-how-the...

A parliamentary committee was investigating "Disinformation and 'fake news'" which also touched on Cambridge Analytica. Once they found out Kramer had documents from Facebook obtained in lawsuit discovery, they sent him an Order to Produce Documents. He didn't initially comply but then went to Parliament without lawyers where he may have then believed he would be imprisoned or detained in the country for not complying so he turned them over from a Dropbox account ( Had he asked a lawyer, he would know that UK Parliament hasn't fined or imprisoned anybody for a long time https://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/jan/30/contempt-parliam... )
Doordash is in that business, with Doordash Kitchens. On a smaller scale; though. They have a small food factory in Redwood City, CA, cranking out hamburgers and variations on chicken with rice. Doordash "dashers" drive up and pick up the food.
We have 10 years to cut 50% of emissions. We literally can't build enough nuclear plants in that time, it's very slow. It's also really expensive. We have to use other renewables.
Falling Back to an Older MacBook Pro
Procedurally generated voxel islands in the browser
Lufthansa scraps 1,300 flights in 48-hour strike
What is this? The Github repo doesn't offer a description.
I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to say here - with your link (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=voter+fraud&t=ffab&ia=news&iar=new...) you seem to be implying that it will prove that there are examples "all over the place."

However, here are the first ten articles when I load that page:

0: Loser of KY governor's race "raises concerns" that there is voter fraud but has not yet submitted concrete proof to anyone (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kentucky-gov-matt-bevin-rai...)

1: A politician's wife is convicted of actual voting fraud; involving absentee ballots (which notably, voter ID laws don't really address, re: the topic a few replies up): https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-mexico/articles/...

2: Another article about item 1: https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/jury-finds...

3: A legal case relating to publicity of voter information, because the plaintiff wants to investigate for voter fraud: https://www.minnpost.com/state-government/2019/11/does-the-m...

4: An article about voter roll irregularities in Florida; the most interesting bits being some incorrect registrations (which do not necessarily indicate "fraud" as we'd commonly call it, though it may be illegal), and a few hundred cases of people who do seem to have cast multiple or irregular ballots (some from an unmentioned time period, and some from recent elections): https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-ne-palm-vot...

5: A CalTech team analyses a different set of voter data and finds no fraud: https://www.cnet.com/news/new-algorithms-go-fraud-hunting-in...

6: An article in which the convicted politician's wife in article (1) complains that it is a witch hunt: https://www.abqjournal.com/1388391/laura-seeds-alleges-voter...

7: A letter to the editor alleging that according to the Heritage Fund, there is no widespread voter fraud problem: https://www.thegazette.com/subject/opinion/letters-to-the-ed...

8: An article about the convicted politician's wife in (1), this from before the case was decided: https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/jurors-wei...

9: An article about students in North Carolina who will be unable to use their student IDs to vote: https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2019/11/07/as...

Your link to a news search doesn't support your assertion that there are examples all over the place.
its not something you learn, friend

Its something YOU CHOOSE as a way of life
The Gates Foundation is definitely better than running a pedo island or putting up another building in Harvard, but whether it's outcomes are better than anyone else is not clear - https://www.forbes.com/sites/williammeehan/2019/10/25/philan...
GPS refers specifically to the US system.
> You realize you're talking about one of the highest-impact philanthropists in modern history, right?

Being a philanthropist shouldn't justify a low tax rate.
I assume the correct pattern for finite possible inputs would be something like

if request.post? || request.put? || more...
# do dangerous thing
else
# do safe thing

This of course ignores the smell which others have pointed out where with rails you would ideally have a totally different method get called in the first place for a GET vs a POST as you can have different actions for them in the controller.
you're going to let a bunch of astroturfing people wreck your platform and it's not going to be useful to anyone. you're being naive.
Hmm sounds like my current devops position, especially that last one
Whose reputation will it hurt more? The Saudi's or Kalanick's?
He's paid more in taxes than probably any other citizen of the country.

And the Gates Foundation is indeed generous with how much impact it's had.
> Do you know how Sweden's inequality compares to the U.S. quantitatively?

By the Gini coefficient, the inequality is much lower, but the social mobility rate is about the same.

http://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/The%20Son%20A...
Actually, you are in control of the vehicle if you're in the driver's seat with the key in the ignition, engine on or not.
"I for one welcome a world of universal access to genetic improvements"

The stuff that's scary is not that there is universally accessible genetic improvements.

The fear is that these improves are not universally accessible.
I'd have no problem banning genetic profiling until every kid has access to pre-k and development specialists, that actually sounds like a good plan to me. Okay, you're rich and you want to genetically enhance your stock? Help us provide these basic provisions to the poor first and then we'll let you do it.
Yes, but how? I agree and have spent a lot of (essentially useless) time on thinking about that, but this is complex unless you are a despot.

If we have no privacy left, you monitor all that you do on any foreign or local card/transfer etc (you ban crypto and put insanely high fines/prison on using it) and if that seems not to match what you reported as income/capgains/etc, you get an audit. What is the point of being rich and evading taxes if you cannot spend it? And if you move it to foundations etc, at least you cannot get to it, nor can you family if they live in this (fictional?) country as they would have to explain the same things.

In a society (probably a democracy?) where people value privacy and non-draconian laws, I cannot figure out how to make this work. Besides having educated and patriot people who actually would choose to pay taxes for the greater good. But these people do not start on their own (Bill Gates example of not minding to pay more tax) and they usually believe they can do better things with their money (for humanity). And that is usually not the case or way too biased; their right if taxing is paid fairly, but if evading, a problem.
> which it won't because everybody in the US thinks they're a future billionaire

Well clearly not everyone in the US thinks that, or this plan would have literally 0% support; I live in the US and have no delusions of becoming a billionaire in this lifetime and I also support something akin to Warren's wealth tax (and would like to think that I could continue to even if I did somehow magically become a billionaire).

I don't think it can be simply reduced to "every American thinks they're going to be rich". I think a lot of Americans have this Ayn-Randian idea that billionaires truly "earned" their money, and that wealth-hoarders are a lot smarter (or better) than they are, and as a result deserve to keep their wealth, even at the expense of everyone else.

But I have issues with lumping together Americans like that; we're a pretty diverse country, with a pretty diverse set of opinions on tax policies.
Indeed, the second paragraph spells out that this is a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and places it in context with GPS, GLONASS, and BeiDou
Humans have also been doing this for many years through a process colloquially known as "dating".
Exactly. If you were a new startup founder in this environment, wouldn't you likely do ANYTHING to not have a valuation >$49MM? Probably deciding not to raise more funding, not to scale, not to grow and help others.

I think that the side effects of a wealth tax might just end VC investing in high valuation companies altogether. I don't know if many people on HN see that as a positive.
This is a bit of the interesting aspect to this failure. Official channels have overall been pretty weak on details on what all happened in this error. Most public knowledge of what happened has been gleaned from the signals coming off the satellites themselves which anyone can see. This live data combined with understandings of how the system should work is most of the public knowledge of what has been going on.

I don't have a ton of knowledge into the deep technical aspects to GPS, but I imagine we would probably have some similar clues of an outage of this scale in GPS. Maybe a little less technical details of what is happening behind the scenes, but knowing a high percentage of satellites entering a no guarantee precision mode should be possible.