skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard real-time is fundamentally about never agreeing to start something you can’t finish.

It has nothing at all to do with throughput. What matters is whether there are any unbounded or loosely bounded operations in your call tree. Like memory management bookkeeping.

I worked with Aicas’ hard real-time VM for three years, although we were not using those features. Among other things, they had to implement their own amortizing garbage collector to do it. You’d need something similar for Rust to handle object life cycles. It’s also common to divide memory into regions so that different classes of traffic can’t exhaust system memory.
Ah that explains why "swiss bank" stopped being a synonym for corrupt politician over the last decade or so. It used be, when i was growing up.
Switch the blue to red, probably. Neat.
The Elixir / Erlang community: https://erlef.org/
Is there a way for me as a user to opt out of this tool other than relying on third party tools like uBlock? I'm starting to get annoyed by so many "privacy focused" tools with literally no consent options at all.
Also worth calling out that the worst performer, Western Digital, acquired HGST, now let's see if WD improves or HGST gets worse :)

Edit: See comment below, looks like this happened a while ago, so not likely a real factor :)
Imagine you're providing a desktop shell. You want to support a right-click "Send this file via email" option. This also happens for things like document editing where you want to send the current document as an email attachment.

Now imagine you've decided the only portable way to marshal the information of what to send is to use an extension to the URI for mailto. This means you can no longer reliably figure out if the URI is "safe" (being generated by a program that wants to effect a "send this document") or "unsafe" (I clicked a link in my web browser).

XDG chose to go down the stupid path. Windows opted to use MAPI, so MAPISendMail lets you attach files for the shell extensions.
You shouldn't even need to consider those two points - just leave that miserable state.
The trick of leaving the house for a "fake commute" that others have mentioned, works for me as well. Physical movement and free headspace seem to go a long way towards "resetting" into a work mode or home mode.
You seem to assume that billionaires would throw a hissy fit and go off grid to Galt's Gulch if they faced a wealth tax. But maybe they are motivated by more than the concrete purchasing power of their wealth.

If they are motivated by the desire to build, they would still build. If they are motivated by the desire to beat their peers in a game of "Who Has The Most Money," they would still compete. The winning number would just have fewer digits. If they are motivated by the power money buys, well, maybe the rest of us are better off not playing that game.
Don't forget posts about psychedelic drugs.
All My Homies Hate C: A Zoomer’s Perspective on the Ancient Language
Copyright law doesn't say anything about users of software, it talks about copying, performing (no, you are not "performing" nginx for your remote users, that's not how it works), etc.

In fact, courts have repeatedly ruled that the output of software (i.e. the packets nginx sends over the network, but which aren't its own code) is not covered by the software's copyright itself.

If I lend you my phone, in the absence of more restrictive EULAs, and excluding media (which is reproduced verbatim by the phone), you are free to use any software on it without being subject to the copyright of said software.

Does it make sense now?
I thought we usually think of profit when we say I made X. Turnaround can be a lot lower or nearly 100% profit depending on your business. But maybe it's usual to talk about turnaround instead of profit in the US?
While there is a small cushion to "kill" in terms of wealth and conspicuous consumption, before long you're talking about killing people. These industries don't just extract wealth for the 1%. They're also feeding billions of people.
Quick Steps to Competitor Analysis
Wow this is exactly what I had in mind for "opensource tools for speed-to-text". I didn't know it did this too. Thanks a lot!
It's obviously impossible to provide a source for what people will do in the future based on some hypothetical policy change, on either side of the argument. Stop it.
And in the ensuing time, those with money and influence built up the class distinctions in the legal and tax codes. The comparison isn't an exact match, but the class distinction IS.

Bezos may be contributing to the privatization of space, but he's doing it by exploiting the ones who keep the merchandise flowing through the cash cow. 19th century robber barons honed some of that machinery, Amazon has capitalized on and honed to a fine sharpness that blade.
> and while the government might take your last 409a valuation as the means to valuing your net worth, they aren't accepting your shares as payment, only cold hard cash.

There aren't any wealth taxes of this nature on the books in the US, so assuming that they will only take cash and not shares is premature.

But I think you raise a good point that payment in shares is far more tenable, and likely probably, for highly illiquid economic assets.
Contrast between a growing/innovative/free society and a stagnant/authoritarian one. Key difference is meritocracy -- can competent newcomers displace incumbents?

This is mirrored at smaller scales -- good leaders of healthy teams want newcomers to grow and learn and surpass them. Bad leaders are afraid of failure and don't want their people to fundamentally grow and change. Likewise good parents want their children to surpass them; bad parents harass and belittle and shame.

When Apple makes it painful to build sizable businesses on their platform, this is intentional stagnation to maximize profit.

When billionaires run think tanks, fund political campaigns, and rig laws to increase their power at the expense of the common good, this is intentional stagnation to maximize profit.
The price for Soylent you quoted is for pre-prepared bottles.

You can get the add-water-only version for much cheaper. In fact, you can get a day's worth of calories for about $10 even with better quality formulation competing products such as Huel 3.0 or Plenny Active. You literally scoop the powder into the provided bottle with the provided scoop they give you, fill it with water, shake it up for 30 seconds, and it's ready to drink.

A bit more of a fair comparison just in case anyone reading this is curious on the development of this space.
This counts throwaway Kindle devices that have something like 5% of the performance of an iPad and nothing like the capability, however. Apples and oranges.

The fact is that there isn't a serious Android tablet market. Not really.
Sia (and its Skynet product) have been working great for me for the last 6 months!
Makes you appreciate the other side of tech icons so much more. Bezos, Gates, Jobs did/do not promote themselves as philosopher kings.

Just sad to watch.

Who in tech started this? Was it pg or were the open source manifestos from Eric Raymond et al the precursor?

The a16z content factory is same thing. Nauseating.
The only purpose of a wealth tax is so that the wealthy have less money. That's it. It serves no other purpose.

Because as we know from Modern Money Theory, taxes are about releasing real resources. Government has no need of taxes financially. You need taxes in a society in the same way you need garbage collection in a program. So you can release real stuff to maintain the virtual abstraction.

Billionaires tend not to have a hoard of nurses in their garages. It's usually Bugattis.

If there is any unemployment then we are overtaxed for the size of government we have.

Look after the unemployment via a Job Guarantee, auto stabilising the price of labour in the economy, and market competition will then sort out the billionaires automatically.

In the economy a bottom up design beats a top down.
I have a work computer workstation setup in a spare room and treat it like going to work. Originally, I set it up on the kitchen table and I never stopped working. My wife said, "enough!"

The office signals that it's time to stop for the day, co-workers going home for the day, etc., are still hard to replace so, I now use cues such as the mailman delivering, the sound of the evening news that my wife always watches, and neighbors who do work at an office returning home, as signs to stop.
Isn't HGST just Western Digital now?
I got one of those! Kudos for making them - it got me started on a lot of things (including reflashing a CPLD with a parallel cable, come to think of it, although I can't remember why). I ended up flashing my DS's firmware later on, but I think I still have my PassMe floating around - it's a fun little memento :)
Ahh... the placebo effect[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo
Info about the Google Play Music sunset
The real reason America has such high military expenditure is more about ensuring the hegemony of the U.S. dollar by backing Saudi interests in the Middle East (and thereby ensuring that the dollar is the main currency denominating oil transactions, which ensures its global reserve status). Which gives the U.S. an upper hand on the world stage because of its currency being the reserve.

https://citizentruth.org/the-secret-deal-that-formed-the-us-...
It seems like, if you wanted to help stop the wealthy from ducking paying taxes, one should just stop providing a special long term capitol gains tax and tax capitol gains the same as income. It simplifies the tax code, stops punishing workers who receive a wage over those who earn investment income, and doesn't require a bunch of new accounting to implement. My cynicism hat tells me the reason it isn't the policy goal is that it could actually pass in the US, the wealth tax likely never will.
Thanks for this reply! I never quite understood what people meant when they said they were going to meditate on a thing or an idea. This clears things up a lot.
Interesting to note that this wasn't always the case - The Hitachi Deskstar line used to have the nickname "Deathstar" due to their low reliability (this was maybe 15-20 years ago)
Just goes to show that people upvote anything if it sounds cool, and don't bother checking it out.
You have to pay back the loan eventually, with interest. This doesn't change the fundamentals. It just means you're paying a bit more overall to defer selling the shares.

It does bring up an interesting point, however. Is this tax applied to net wealth? Can you subtract money that you owe to someone else? What if the lender is outside the country and thus not subject to the wealth tax? And what happens if your net wealth is negative—do you get a refund?
You're right, but that fundamentally changes how I look at apps on my iPhone and my device or the ecosystem as a whole. Right now, any app icon I see on my phone, or any Apple device, I implicitly trust, because I have outsourced my trust to a corporation. This does not mean there are not scummy/weaselly apps out there (tiktok/Facebook/etc. for example).

Like root certificates, you have to trust someone, at some point. I am choosing to trust Apple.

By allowing side-loading apps, that is eroded, even if the tiniest bit.
> voice2json is optimized for:

> Sets of voice commands that are described well by a grammar

> Commands with uncommon words or pronunciations

> Commands or intents that can vary at runtime

Doesn't sound like what you'd want for a generic transcription service.
For userTrack, the LAMP installation process has 3 main steps:

1. Upload the script files.

2. Create a MySQL database for the script to use.

3. Run the auto-installer (to set up DB connection and create the tables in DB).

https://docs.usertrack.net/installation/uploading-the-script
Repealing citizens united, donations limits, and low limit matching on individual donations would probably go a long way to improving it.
And it kicks in at €30,000
I just checked Xplain out and wow, it's a bit expanded from how I remember it from a few years ago, I'm definitely going to be fine-tooth-combing through it at some point, particularly the section on regions which looks like it'll help me crack the overlapping-window problem. The rasterization section also looks like it'll be fun to "??!?" through, thanks for making that!

(Compositing was also interesting to look through; I always thought it was extremely curious how no X11 windowmanagers ever did hybrid compositing, where they only composited minimized windows into thumbnails but left actual open windows alone without inducing ≈1 frame of extra latency. I'm very curious if Wayland can avoid that, but that's just idle curiosity at this point.)

NB. noclip.website is throwing "program not valid" from `this.gl.useProgram(e.gl_program)` (line 100,924 :D) with a HD Graphics 3000 on oldish i5-3360M (HP 8470p). Chances are it needs a beefier GPU.
Yeah, exactly: The floor is not going to be "100 million" for very long before they have to drop it to "100 thousand" because the people with "100 million" can change the way they structure their wealth faster than the regulators, because of regulatory capture and they'll need that money from somewhere. The upper-middle class carries almost the entire tax burden of the U.S. It's hard to boo-hoo about when you've got 2 cars, a single family home, etc. but it has an enormous negative impact on the economy to punish one tier of the economic ladder so hard.
> A science fiction style solution is going to be the only way to feed the world.

What about plant-based diets? That doesn't seem too SF to me
Technically... you can in all but one circumstance: modern US constitutional law.

I don't think any country has the same laisezz-faire approach to buying politicians... certainly not in the name of free speech. I don't think the argument has even been made.

That said, even in the US there isn't a real constitutional barrier to doing something about money in politics. You could make candidates wear sponsorships on their jerseys, like racecar drivers. No free impediment. That's a joke example, but you see my point. That particular ruling is not an actual barrier, the barrier is a legislative majority.
While the WD and Seagate models range from $99 to $109 for 4tb, HGST is $149 on amazon. That might be the reason?
I want to clarify: The Rust project has been largely "outside" of the Mozilla incubator for quite a while already; with most of the governance being non-Mozilla individuals. The main things Mozilla provided was infrastructure (a lot of which has moved out in the past year), trademark ownership, and paying some people to work on Rust full-time (which many companies do now).

Make no mistake, Mozilla has contributed a lot to the Rust project, but the particular stage of maturity you mention was achieved some years ago :)
There are, the most well known being alcohol.

However, while it makes people more talkative, it doesn't make them more truthful. So it is not considered effective as an interrogation technique.
I "end" the workfay by either reading a book for half an hour or listening to a book on tape while I walk my dogs. After working my brain is still going a mile a minute and letting it feast on some fiction makes the transition out of work mode a bit more pleasant for me. Back in Before-Times my wife and I would go do Yoga after work which was a great way to /workday.
Sorry, I keep getting the exact designation confused, you're right, they have two of the AH-1F Cobra variant, not the later AH-1Z Viper version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Y6XhQ0774 gives a closeup look at one.
I tend to think of software in terms of composable units, so Unix-like utilities are very attractive in my workflow, and Datasette just fits right into that model. Datasette is easy to deploy and does one thing well. I can use it on my little single-board computer I use for hobby projects and allow other machines on my network to have an API to view a database a daemon is populating there. But it works just as well to share larger, static data sets on the internet. It's just a tool that fits right into its niche in the stack and does its job really well (much like sqlite).
Hourly employees pay it too and because it is a withholding tax, you pay for it even if you are below the standard deduction and don't file a tax return because it is automatically taken out of your paycheck by your employer when you get paid. Self employed people also have to pay both sides of it and they have to file if their income is above $400 a year so the only way your really getting out of it is if your employer is paying you under the table or you are self employed and made less than $400.
> For a guy who's always railing about the value of honest, rational discourse, he's unbelievably misleading and political in this post.

Where does pg rail about honest rational discourse? If you follow him on twitter for the last couple of years it's been nothing but pontification.
One possible cause for wage growth stagnation is the increase in the supply of labour from EG immigration and H1B visas and the like.
It can't be "just" as susceptible as what happened here.

If you even do the straightforward "don't freeze time anywhere, just rolling copy all the files onto a hard medium", you may end up with logically inconsistent data, in that files from later in the backup may actually not have existed alongside ones from earlier ones, but if you write down the timestamps periodically, you end up with a way better end state than "I lost all the files".

At worst, you end up with "I may have lost the last 3 minutes worth of files from the last 3 minutes of the last backup I did".
I had a flatmate with this (or a similar condition, wouldn't have remembered the name). He'd know who I was in the context of our flat, but then blank me if I saw him on campus, where we were on different courses and didn't run into each other often.

... Heh, at least, he said he did..!
I don't necessarily disagree with what you said. This is because I don't know what you're arguing for.

Wealth taxes are one solution for what? For the anger people feel when they realize billionaires exist, absolutely. To improve the lot of the very poor, maybe (but an argument needs to be made here).

These discussions assume too much about the end goal of society.
The android community is still the most reliable with updates. (My oneplus 3 is still getting updates with LineageOS and so is the oneplus one)
For what it's worth, I agree with you. I work in software and the number of times I have inspected the source of something I'm running could be counted on one hand. I trust Apple, I trust the open-source community to look for me, etc.
I remembered having my socks knocked off the first time I walked down Sky Arrow Bridge! I always wondered if it was truly 3d or if they were using some doom-style hack, but watching the video again I think it must have been true 3D. Also, it's amazing how much higher-fidelity it looked in my memory
If it was 50% higher when they were hired, they still probably made less. All FAANG stocks climbed 100+% over the same timeframe. Amazon, 500%.

[Edit] But... I think you might have missed the point. The reason to join a pre-IPO company is to make far more money post-IPO when the stock rises. Joining Facebook in 2008 or Google in 2000 would be equivalents here, and those people became very, very wealthy on the day of the IPO due to this pop vs when they joined. Uber employees who joined 4 years before IPO had their stock drop instead.
> It's unrealistic to think that the government would make better use of that capital.

Yep, what has the government ever done for anyone!
> to cover their tax obligations and so would invest in riskier investments.

Just because the investment is riskier, doesn't mean the returns are automatically better. It only goes one way - higher returns are automatically more risky.

If wealth tax is implemented, then an investment automatically becomes lower return (since the wealth generated is also going to be taxed indefinitely). So an equivalent startup that would've returned 10x with no wealth tax will _need_ to return 11x (or something higher) to make the investment worth the same risk as before the wealth tax. i.e., there will be fewer investment opportunities that are suitable, given the higher bar it must reach under a wealth tax.

It's been shown time and time again, that a tax on something will discourage it (in the aggregate). I don't think a wealth tax is any different - it will discourage wealth creation.
Of course there's no issue with that. I think the point is to know your options and worth.

If you have a low offer but no other options that's "fair" in a sense. If you can get something it'd be pretty silly to accept a bad deal, however.
I had never heard of noclip.website... our office stopped for a couple minutes.
Diagrammatic notations seem to pop up all over the place, but in my mind they all share a difficulty that interesting complex graphs tend to not be planar (can't be drawn without criss-crossing lines). That makes it hard to organize in a skimmable/glanceable way. I'd love to see what a future with ubiquitous 3D volumetric displays or VR or whatever could do for diagrammatic notations. You might suddenly be able to organize larger diagrams and I wouldn't be surprised if diagrammatic notations became more useful and started popping up more in that hypothetical future.
>Billionaires are good for society. elon musk and jeff bezos are leading the way into space and that is huge for humanity.

Enough with the blanket statements, Sure bill gates is ok but just yesterday the front page had a story of the Sackler family and how they amassed billions by pumping the united states with opiates. They literally killed thousands and ruined the lives of millions, while destroying American society. Billionaries are people, some evil some good.

Also, the point of a government is to provide for it's citizens (with taxes) not to hope that in a 100years we can settle on other planets. And btw, in that scenario we would not be the ones who end up on Elysium. As much as SV programmers like to think they can be part the billionaire class you are not and will never be an oligarch.
We all know that's a tax dodge though, right? https://www.economist.com/business/2006/05/11/flat-pack-acco...
FWIW i played around with Xorg xserver code a while some time ago and i found it quite easy to grasp things in it... or at least not any more difficult than any other relatively large codebase i've worked with (though the X server doesn't really have a large codebase and the entire Xorg project is broken into multiple small libraries that make things easier to grasp).

My guess why you do not see as many people working on Xorg is that... it generally works for the majority of people. Personally i'm 100% certain i could fix any issue i have with it, but i never really felt anything missing from Xorg, it works perfectly fine for what i'm doing with it.
It's like the AI is replicating the same mistake a human brain on LSD makes.
The orange roughy story is particularly sad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_roughy

"The orange roughy is notable for its extraordinary lifespan, attaining over 200 years."

"Orange roughy is fished almost exclusively by bottom trawling. This fishing method has been heavily criticized by environmentalists for its destructive nature."
I would think it's valid to make that assumption given taxes must currently be paid in dollars and I don't know of any places that allow it to be paid in equity. I would also think out debt obligations to the world bank must be paid in currency.