skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The use by Obama of the FBI to investigate his political opponent during a presidential campaign, on a basis of an improbable opposition research report is unprecedented and to say the least, controversial. Imagine the outrage if any republican president had done that.

Not saying this is only the last 4 years. I agree, at least 30 years. But no, it is not the action of a single party.
Saying a whole industry maybe did stuff wrong and they should try again is daft. Perhaps do some reading and save yourself going down the same path?

VLIW blew up for obvious[0] reasons - memory access latency is a dynamic thing and can't be anticipated statically very well. Therefore an in-order VLIW chip with its basket of instructions (one of which being a mem access) will stall, the whole basket freezes, the subsequent baskets are held up in the queue, etc.

That's why OOO processors won, a memory miss can to a degree be worked around by executing instructions ahead in the queue, if they're not dependent on the stalled instruction.

[0] Blindingly obvious to me when it was pointed out, but it did need pointing out I have to admit.
>With interest rates near 0%, equities are one of the few places you can expect to earn a reasonable yield on capital.

No, not in a world with COVID. Equities should be going down, not up.
Plenty of ways to pay a bribe AND get a receipt.

A popular scheme in my country:

- politician runs, possibly through proxy, nearly defunct NGO

- company supports NGO

- politician votes in favor of a company

- after politician's stint is over, he runs a series of speeches for the NGO to cash out
I was hoping, from the name, that Book Forum would have a web forum.
Session Buddy on Chrome.
Title should add "in China"

Not saying that's true or false elsewhere, indeed I'd be interested to know.
What "charitable" reading is there of the statement that "slaveholders are the spiritual inspiration for modern Republicans?" I'm simply pointing out that slaveholders and segregationists are the actual ancestors of modern Democrats. Not just because they share a name, but for concrete economic connections that endure to this day. Southern agrarian interests were opposed to the high tariffs Republicans imposed to protect northern industry (because they were exporters of unfinished commodities), and centralized banking (because they debtors). White labor unions excluded Black workers, who were competition.

Sophistry is overlooking by handwaving about the "Southern Strategy."
... only after they ship try_blocks!

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/unstable-book/language-fea...

Seriously, otherwise you can't do error handling within the body of a function that doesn't return Result<>. The language shouldn't force refactoring decisions on the programmer like that.
Can they not force payment processors to stop doing business with them?
"That we want to waste our time. That, however much we might complain, we find satisfaction in endless, circular argument."

"But political and economic and immunological crises pile on one another in succession, over the background roar of ecological collapse. Time is not infinite. None of us can afford to spend what is left of it dallying with the stupid and bland."

But in the past we had plenty of crises and yet we used to spend our downtime shooting the shit, going around in circles, with stupid and bland people just like ourselves (there's not many geniuses in any particular locality, and they usually aren't the ones shooting the shit, just as they don't now). At least it was face to face, I suppose. And at least you could go home and leave them behind to watch tv!

Edit: I will admit that there was more time to think and daydream (and be bored) then. Probably because you didn't have a tv in your pocket and, even if you did, there was often really nothing to watch.
I get the skepticism but VW have done what they said, a couple of years later than originally planned

Well, they've just about managed to release a 200+ mile EV at roughly the same price/range as their competitors * . Thats hardly 'top automaker in all respects, including electric mobility'.

* and thats only because the Tesla Model 3 is extra expensive in Europe, until they get that German factory fired up

Just yesterday on the motorway here I saw an advert for the new ID3 - it’s here.

Is the ID3 actually delivered to customers and on the road though? Wasn't last time I checked.
I think that compromise was brilliant, by the way.

The only other C-family language with that syntax (dot followed by keyword) I know of is Java (where you can write foobarbaz.class; "class" is a language keyword) and it always looked weird.

The Rust maintainers found a great use for it: getting chaining (foo.await?.bar()?.await...) without adding a new postfix "sigil".
> As another classic example, here's a VW press relase from 2013, when they declared they would lead the world on EVs by 2018.

Volkswagen is the biggest BEV maker in Europe today:

https://www.schmidtmatthias.de/post/april-2020-european-elec...

Give them a couple more years and they will be the biggest BEV maker worldwide. Here are some BEVs you can buy from them either right now or soon:

- Porsche Taycan

- Audi e-Tron

- Audi Q4 e-tron

- Audi e-tron GT

- VW e-Golf (being replaced by the ID.3)

- VW ID.3

- VW ID.4

- Skoda Enyaq

And more to come each year. Volkswagen is walking the walk.
I didn't say literal; it tastes (and feels, and looks) to me like it.
> All the attempts at building breeders have experienced serious problems, and estimates of their cost are higher than for thermal reactors.

Nope. EBR-II back in the day had no big problems over it's lifetime. In Russia there are a couple of relatively big ones producing power, with no big issues.

But crucially, so far all breeder reactors have been one-off things done for R&D purposes. They haven't been optimized for producing low cost power, and there has been no learning curve either since all have been bespoke designs.

Then again, in the west we have failed to build even traditional LWR's on time and budget, as well as other large projects.

> So, even if the neutrons are slower than in a weapon, they are still much faster than in a thermal reactor, so the doubling time could be much shorter.

Yes, but not short enough that a non-trivial fraction of the fuel would fission before the assembly would disintegrate.

> There's also the possibility that, because the core contains tons of plutonium, the rearrangement driven by the supercriticality could cause the arrange to become MORE reactive, not less

Now you're just concern-trolling. If part of the core becomes supercritical due to melting, in the absence of cooling that would vaporize the supercritical part of the fuel, reducing its density and pushing everything else outwards, thus reducing the neutron multiplication. Melted fuel flowing is just a much too slow process to rapidly cause a big bunch of fuel to become prompt supercritical.

Nuclear weapons are very Very VERY carefully engineered so that a substantial fraction of the fuel fissions before the assembly blows apart. Nuclear reactors OTOH, including fast reactors, are very Very VERY carefully engineered so this won't happen even in the most wildly imaginary accident scenario.

> For this reason I suspect that nothing but a fast MSR could be licensed in the west.

Oklo Inc. is in the process of licensing their fast reactor having submitted the application this year. Presumably the believe they have a decent chance of having their license application approved.

There's also the Versatile Test Reactor(?) which the US government is planning to build. Essentially a PRISM reactor (evolved from EBR-II / IFR) modified for materials testing rather than power production.

> You will note that the French have now abandoned Astrid, which was to be their next attempt at a prototype fast reactor.

Yes. I was never a big fan of ASTRID, AFAICS there wasn't anything really innovative there that would have brought any major new insights. Still disappointing though.
Yes. Deliveries started a week ago. Here's someone posting videos about his new ID.3 to his YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/BatteryLife/videos

He's tried various drives and charging sessions. The matrix headlights are quite nice.
Supreme Court nominations were allowed to expire without action 14 times (out of 37 unsuccessful nominations) before Garland.
Well, who wants to pay for something when a good free alternative exists? And if people aren't paying, how is Apple going to get their 30%?

Free apps are only in Apple's interest as much as they think it makes people like their platform more. I think they care less about that then they used to, since there's so many different things pulling and pushing people to use iOS already.
Startups race to develop tech that can clear workplaces of Covid
Well thats something. I hope the new VW platform turns out to be as world changing as they are making it out to be.
I'm kinda impressed there's not a whole slew of comments debunking every claim like everytime "guns, germs and steel" is brought up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel
It seems almost impossible to measure the "return" on most government investments...

How much exactly did the economy benefit from building a new road?
Imagine that

I think this is an important generalization because it undoes an unhealthy generalization by Gen X and Baby Boomers, the idea that everyone younger is literate with computer use and troubleshooting, the younger the better
If you knew anything about stocks then the people who performed the worst are usually falling into the trap of buying "hot stocks". Inexperienced investors buy stocks that have gone up recently and then get disappointed when they eventually go down. Essentially they commit the mistake of buying high and selling low. The "age-old" strategy is to buy "cold" under-performing stocks whose company has growth potential.

Today people just buy "hot" stocks and make bank because the central bank is also buying them.
> the ones that are have a limited capacity

I got to see it at a local theater capable of showing the 70mm version, and they had sectioned off two seats between any person or couples. So effectively they had less than half of the normal capacity.

On the bright side for them, it's been sold out 4+ weeks in advance for quite a while now.
This is straight out of the horses mouth:

- Lightning-fast cold server start
- Instant hot module replacement (HMR)
- True on-demand compilation

This part should be of particular interest to you:

https://github.com/vitejs/vite#how-is-this-different-from-vu...
I don’t think you need to be friends with people who explicitly and literally advocate for genocide. If you are just making that point to introduce that particular nuance for the sake of completeness, I think I can agree with everything you said.

My reservation is that most of the time this kind of argument is made, it’s because someone wants to take the most extreme cases and use them to construct some dubiously over-generalized argument. For instance, over a hundred years ago the Supreme Court themselves did this, notoriously stating “but certainly there isn’t the freedom of speech to shout ‘fire’ in a crowded theater!” and then using that to construct an argument to justify throwing someone into prison for distributing pamphlets about resisting the draft.

In the here and now, there is a far bigger problem with people taking normal political disagreements and catastrophizing them into excuses to break friendships and disown family members than there is with people literally advocating for genocide.
Biggest BEV maker if you include PHEVs, but thats not what I'm talking about.

Which of those models actually exist and which ones are any good? Because the last electric Audi I heard about was feeble. The Porche has good handling going for it but not much else.
We use it for internal messaging between services. Particular between systems owned by different teams. It's reliable, easy to configure, have good out of the box backoff. We have used Kafka in the past and it just felt too heavy for what we needed.
Many examples can be hiddenly loaded, not well-constructed rule
No, biggest BEV maker in Europe right now. The chart is a bit confusing.
Nishad Kunju of Hyderabad, India is the only defendant named as a former Amazon employee. The others bribed him, then he left the company and bribed his former colleagues.
Of course, yes, sorry that's what I mean.

Some bacteria may already be weakly tolerant. Using antibiotics will likely lead to that trait being selected for, and the tolerance becomes stronger.

What have you been studying to get to PhD level as per your prolife info?

You obviously know what you're talking about, and I only have a fairly lay level understand :)
After playing with the contrast on the image a bit it doesn't look like any American camouflage that I know, it is most likely the Australian Mulitcam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Multicam_Camouflage...).

https://imgur.com/y1vCFSe
> Seriously, otherwise you can't do error handling within the body of a function that doesn't return Result<>.

Sure you can, just use an inner closure that does return Result<>, and use `match` or the like for error handling. It's not any more verbose than this `try {} ... catch {}` special syntax.
The price for equities is driven by supply and demand, like all other prices. Does COVID make you want to save more, or less? If it's more, given that bonds have extremely low returns, why not stocks? Especially if you think that there will be a sharp rebound next quarter.

I mean, I think the stock are overvalued, but it's not hard to see how we ended up here. I thought about rebalancing out of stocks to avoid a drop, but I'm stymied by the question: rebalance to what?
Sorry for going off topic, but your comment confuses me. Doesn't "sail off into the distance" mean to disappear? But you're saying the opposite in your comment?

My reasonibg being that when a ship sails off into the distance it disappears from view.
This has nothing to do with conservatism, right-wing politics, or Republican party politics. It has to do with the relationship between political players in a healthy political atmosphere.
Psychoanalytic is as discredited as theory can get. It might as well as deriving particle theory from of Aristotle four base elements.

Plus the article is riddled with sentences like "telos of the clickbait economy is fascist kitsch."

It's just empty claptrap, that could have been written in half as many words, if the writer wasn't trying to be as pretentious.
They do that too, a lot in fact. Most of the cases that request a certiorari are denied.

https://supremecourtpress.com/chance_of_success.html

And in the majority of those cases the SC does only instruct the lower court on that specific case, refraining from creating new law as much as possible.

France is a "civil law" country. Courts there cannot "make new laws", they can only invalidate them. (And as far as I know this applies in general to all civil law countries.)
We all know: Stalin brutally optimizes. Iirc it is still one of the faster scheme compilers. Sure, Chez will probably run more stable, but I for numeric code or when the full program optimization can work it's magic in ways that other scheme compilers can't it produces faster code than all other compilers.

Last time i checked it was the most capable at optimizing type inference in the presence of mutation. Where most other schemes just did boxing, Stalin produced nice and fast code.
Aren't iOS browsers just a reskin of safari anyways?
On the same hardware, the same browser with TST disabled (and no auto-suspend) easily handles 1,000 open tabs - slightly slower than it handles 100, but barely noticeable. With TST it is unbearably slow.
Hmm ok, just scraping ahead of Nissan/Renault. OK well thats something.

What have they been selling 30k of between Jan and Apr then? e-Golfs and e-Trons?

edit: WAIT, your chart is 'Western Europe'. If you look at all of Europe, YTD sales (up to July) you get:

Renault Zoe - 46259

Tesla Model 3 - 34014

VWe-Golf - 21794

Audi e-Tron - 16643

Kona EV - 15971

https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2020/08/europe-july-2020.html

Strong showing by the e-Golf (how are they selling that many of a car with 125 mile range??) and e-Tron but even if you add them together Renault are still way ahead. Well deserved, the Zoe is a great package.

Edit: WAIT WAIT
didn't go far enough down the list to catch the e-up

E-up - 9975

So that does indeed put vw in the lead, and mostly with sales of previous-gen EVs with 100/125 range. How are they shifting those?
> Where as CGI or miniatures take longer and add more risk if they don't look right on the first attempt.

Well, at least next attempts would be relatively cheap with CGI. Less so for the 747.

Especially with https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCoconutEffect in operation.
Pure speculation, but I’d guess people who are already responsible for handling explosives in a safe way would also be responsible for making a sufficiently “nice” boom.

I’m assuming they have ways to plan how things are going to explode and maybe even ways to test it somehow before the shot.
> but is there another way to express this idiom in Rust?

If you don’t want to handle Results, just ? all the way up and out of main. Then come back and deal with them as necessary when you’re ready.

It’s far nicer than dealing with exceptions.
I think the implication is that someone poorly paid and lightly supervised is more susceptible to bribery. Whether they are a contractor or full employee, or the color of their skin, is irrelevant. I personally doubt pay makes a difference, either you have integrity or you do not.

All in all, this is very embarrassing for Amazon.
No, the reality is quite boring. The additional central bank money is just pooling up somewhere, never reaching the hands of consumers. If you give consumers money directly you're going to see inflation instantaneously. Central banks are trying to hammer a screw into a wall. It just doesn't work. That's why all central banks in all countries fail equally.
Because a lot of times those others want to remove liberties from me or from people I care about, like women or non-straight people.
So we’re ignoring the fact that Germany basically backstabbed Ukraine with that deal on purpose? Germany did not want to get involved into the Russia / Ukraine conflict because of Russia’s gas dependence, but they knew that Ukraine could force them to take a stance because of their pipeline. So Germany screwed them over and started a pipeline directly with Russia. Germany here is just as much of a scumbag as the US.
It's not necessarily bad habit to kind of purge HN of these random "paper announcements". Wait until there's a meta-analysis and let's submit that and talk about that.

Regarding the folks who are militantly ignorant about the science of soft science, alas I have to agree, they are a bit of a problem.
If hyperinflation ends up happening the central bank can just sell its stocks and thereby reduce the amount of money in circulation. It's entirely risk free.
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I share your frustration. But companies really are ramping up now, after a decade of platitudes and concept cars.

I suspect "manufacture it to make a profit" is the reason for the change. It's only now possible for manufacturers to build a platform like MEB and scale it over enough sales with low enough unit costs to make a profit.

Building a mass market EV five years ago would have been suicide for any existing manufacturer. So compliance EV foot in the water conversions is all we've had.

Even Tesla, which has industry leading R&D efficiency, is still quite far in the red cumulatively. They don't break out costs enough to know if the Model 3 program has broken even yet, but if it has yet it's probably only recently. They get great margins, but they spent a ton of money to ramp up.
If this is safe, why do we still have all these bugs?

Because people don't use it? Because people who use it ignore it? Because it doesn't manage to catch all things the Rust compiler would?

I am all for making C safer, but clearly it doesn't seem to work, with all these use after free bugs you can still find in 2020 C code.
I hope that std::prelude::Result becomes anyhow::Result, including the default generic argument (i.e. Result<u32> just works

But that's basically giving up on informative library-specific error types. It may a valid solution, but it is quite a big leap.

Another tack may be to have the functionality of thiserror in the standard library, to make it less of a hassle to define errors.
Pope Francis to parents of LGBT children: ‘God loves your children as they are’
Speech is most definitely capable of being violence. Just ask most anyone who was bullied as a child.
The methods are different, but Obama's attempt for a power block outside China was smarter, ofc the current administration threw that overboard.

Now it's just US vs. China instead of the world "vs" China.

The current attempt may be way more visible, but I wouldn't say better. Since China is still expanding and the US ( under Trump) stands alone.
Where are those "We at Google think a lot before we implement something" crowd?
Yes, there is, but it requires you to scan a code with your mobile phone before you can use it!
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I think VW's getting EV religion is the silver lining of diese gate. Having the previous guy that sat in your seat sitting in prison focuses the mind.
There is one in anyhow's README.

https://github.com/dtolnay/anyhow#comparison-to-failure
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So basically you say that those who care about security and sound engineering practices should quit software development, because it's a lost cause?
that's nice for you. many of us really do not.
Very good point. User experience is very important. This is also why Amazon periodically breaks into your home and makes sure they have a complete inventory of what you own, so they can ensure a speedier and more appropriate ordering workflow. At face value this seems unethical, but you have to remember that they are improving your user experience and making money, so it’s all ok. And I mean it’s not like they are stealing anything anyway, and you can’t really expect them to respect your privacy when you’ve signed the eula.

Ups sorry, that seems to be a message out of Bizarro world that crossed over.
Does Memex resemble what you were wishing for? (https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex/)
The J/h ratio?
Well, clearly both parties seem to have expectations that the court will rule on controversial matters like abortion. The fact that it also declines to examine many other cases doesn’t really change that.
If you’re talking about Onavo then I have to side with Apple on that one :)
Extremely monitored systems should probably communicate by tape, or cdrom, or similar write-mostly data diode medium. I've heard the US launch network updated mostly via paper tape for a long time. Today it occurred to me that people could, in principle, hand verify that two short paper tapes were identical, without needing to trust the integrity of any technological black boxes.
App Stores were not a mistake, having only one App store allowed like Apple does is a mistake.
I was there around this time. They were posting links on slashdot to drive traffic to their site.
Please do remember that Torvalds worked for Transmeta which created and designed vliw CPUs from scratch.

He's also really practical guy if you happen to remember about Minix micro-kernel VS monolithic Linux-kernel ;)
Nominating a candidate now is also the regular process.
To my surprise the airplane was pretty much unbroken from the outside.

https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/9719776