skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a debate topic I saw on TV once. The 2 teams eventually had to battle it out on the ground of answering "present cry for help" (saving the kitten, self-guilt, life with consciousness) VS answering "future cry for help" (saving the painting, sign of civilization, Noah's Ark, etc...). In the end, the "Save the Painting" team actually won.
As a parent with a kid, this inevitable bifurcation into "dirt poor" and "ultra rich" is obvious, and on every parent's mind these days. This is making school life for kids punishingly competitive. It's a-few-winners-take-all, with most of the winners already pre-determined by being born rich. Every middle class parent is taking extreme steps to get their kid a chance of being one of those winners.

When I was a kid, there was college+professional job out there for the A and B students, and there were jobs at the factory or mill out there waiting for the C and D students. Now, it's success for the A++ students with the "right" extra-curriculars (and for the too-rich-to-fail kids), and unemployment/meth/prison for the remaining A, B, C, and D students.
> The sudden COVID-related rent price drop indicates that this theory is nonsense, and that the high rents are solely a function of supply and demand,

Except your own example demonstrates that it's not. If it was "solely supply and demand", then rents should drop far more dramatically than they have, down to levels comparable to other cities that used to be equally unpopular. Yet there's a literal pandemic and even though demand for San Francisco housing is at a ~20-year low, with newly-empty units everywhere, San Francisco still remains one of the priciest cities in the nation. Short of like, an earthquake wiping SF off the map or similar sized event, demand for SF housing will never get lower than this, and it's still not enough to bring rents remotely back into the real world.

Supply and demand have an impact on housing prices, but are definitely not the "sole" source of them. Landlord behaviour, city tax goals, investment banking demands, private equity involvement, and much more all dramatically impact the price of rent far more than "supply v demand" or any "regulation" does.

This is hard to understand for folks used to megacity pricing, where "high demand" (i.e., a small-but-consistent influx of new residents) is until recently, an automatic given thing you could just always point to as blame for any problem. For those of us out in the midwest, where demand is regularly falling in many places, where new construction always outpaces population growth every single year, and yet the housing prices still always rise, the disconnect between prices and supply/demand is quite a bit more obvious.
Sure, you could get hired like anybody else after passing week long string of whiteboard exams.

Start dropping zero days on twitter if you really want to get hired:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/06/13/microsofts-battl...

wah wah bad person publishing zero days wah wah Irresponsible disclosure hurts everyone. wah wah

reality: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/microsoft-patch-tuesday-... got hired @Microsoft, started fixing other bugs they didnt know they had
Now that's a rabbit hole of a theory. Just like with anything, a "stable" person can live in a world with this kind of make believe and enjoy the story telling devices being used. However, someone less "stable" that can be less able to make these distinctions. Does that mean we all can't have it because of a small number of people? If that's the case, then I would apply this same rule to any and all social media. Clearly, some people can't handle it, so nobody can use it.
I'm fascinated by your opinion here, aphextron. I have a question for you. Say that you chose a stranger over your dog. Then that stranger went and killed another person. Would you regret your decision?

How do you choose to save a stranger's life without knowing anything about them and what they're like?
It’s a trade off, for sure. By using optional extensions, you encourage adoption in the embedded space. But if they’re not part of the base spec, good luck getting mainstream adoption through a RISC-V based desktop computer. The big problem is that people are claiming RISC-V to be the processor that’ll take over the world while ignoring that it can’t if the base spec is too limiting.
What's the security model? Are there multiuser devices?
Sheetless looks promising: https://sheetless.io/

There are also the classic tools like Stella, but they're expensive.
This sounds a lot like sleep apnea symptoms. A sleep study would be well worth it. It may sound like a headache to go sleep in a lab, but if it is sleep apnea the positive life changes of treating it are beyond worth it.

I used to wake with near panic attack just like that.... turns out I wasn’t breathing well. And you don’t have to be overweight to have sleep apnea. Since treating it, I sleep like a baby.

Maybe covid induces some type of central sleep apnea?
Here you go:

The Jain's Death http://www.electricsheepcomix.com/jain/01.html

Rush Limbaugh Eats Everything https://web.archive.org/web/20001109233800/http://www.e-shee...
Looks like AES in ECB mode is also allowed.
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Apple can make tools that use the undocumented ISA, which they don't have to release to the public, potentially using it to develop applications with performance advantages that no one other than Apple can attain.

It's similar to how Microsoft doesn't make all APIs on Windows public and uses non-public ones for various reasons--except this is in hardware.

It's possible the undocumented ISA is used to speed up x86 emulation and might be kept secret due to intellectual property concerns or similar.
Um. No, you can't. I don't know what you are talking about. What you are describing is not and cannot be how lazy IO works. Lazy IO is always on the read side.

Lazy IO, like the partial functions in Prelude, is a convenience hack for making some very low-complexity things easy. I don't have a problem with it existing, because I am fine with matching my tool complexity with the problem complexity.

And also, I understand what it does. I'm surprised I'm the first person to point out that your assertion is not an accurate description of anything that actually happens.
Couldn't you keep the instance the first time every day ? I don't know Macs that much but I assume that AWS could offer a way to wipe it without breaking the instance.
Porque no los dos? Lockdowns are disruptive (surely nobody could disagree with that); pandemics are disruptive (again, presumably nobody disagrees). The important question is to what extent the population is disrupted in the "lockdown" and "non-lockdown" scenarios, and what costs the society pays in human death, a collapsed economy, long-term health effects etc in the two cases.

A reasonable discussion has to start by accepting that every course of action is shitty here! The task is to weigh up the amount of shit and the different qualities of the shit down each pathway; it'll help nobody to claim that one pathway is shining and clean.
I read this back when it was posted a few days ago and it was very good. The heart of it is that the global reserve currency needs to run persistent trade deficits in order to put itself out into the world. This isn’t really sustainable. The dollar will weaken making the US more competitive on exports.

I think this combined with the decade or more of low interest rates will create a really prosperous time for the US. That is assuming we can take advantage of it and don’t instead try to drag out the petrodollar system.
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I was thinking a bit on this few weeks. How real news can be gathered up as now internet is everywhere.

A website made up of Google maps, people would post status or their street or place they visited. Status could be picture or message like "Green", "repair" street lamp not working, awareness" too many street dogs.

Messages could be just few sentences not big as a article. Restricted tags to filter news. This is sort public alerting what's happening in their neighbourhood.
Procedural generation tends to spread out content. It's still based around hand designed content and once you see enough of it you notice repeating patterns.
What's in the samples? What kind of materials?
Not really, because the process is very gradual. You don’t sell all your stocks the day you retire, you gradually wind down until you hit some reasonably conservative allocation in your 80s or so like 30% stock/70% bonds. This certainly can put some downward pressure on the stock market if the rate of this winding down is higher than the rate that young people are adding to their 401ks but it’s counterbalanced by many other forces.
I've had the sense that growth investments are almost completely closed to the public in the United States. This trend has been gradually solidifying ever since the dot-com bubble, and has reached its logical conclusion today. The only IPOs happen when companies reach 100-billion dollar valuations, and sometimes not even then. IPOs seem more likely for private companies that have lost their growth potential.

There's certainly some potential for growth and returns still available when companies reach this stage, but the lion's share is taken out already. The index funds are also often at the ass end of this phenomenon, buying in only at very high valuations. The most absurd example happening a week ago, with Tesla entering the S&P500 as the sixth biggest company.

I'd like the possibility of investing in a fund of unlisted companies. The growth sector that's not represented in the major indexes is far too big to ignore. I try to compensate by having a portion of my wealth in "small cap" companies, but there is still a very significant sector that's completely missing.
x86 isn’t performance competitive either if you’re targeting a CPU that doesn’t run it natively. In fact, it’s much worse than WebAssembly.

Even Apple Rosetta takes roughly a 1.25x-1.50x hit on SPEC compared to native [1], and that’s with ahead-of-time compilation and no software sandboxing, whereas WebAssembly VMs typically use JIT compilation and do provide software sandboxing, both of which come with overhead. In contrast, inNative [2] is a WebAssembly compiler that has ahead-of-time compilation and no software sandboxing, and it can supposedly reach 95% of native performance (no idea if the benchmarks are cherry-picked though). This makes sense: WebAssembly is higher-level, closer to a compiler IR, whereas x86 assembly has already decided on low-level details (like register allocation and calling conventions) that are suboptimal to emulate on another architecture.

And other x86 emulators will do worse than Rosetta. For one thing, Rosetta can take advantage of the Total Store Ordering mode added to M1 chips for the specific purpose of emulating x86 faster. An emulator running on pretty much any other CPU has to emulate a stronger memory model in software on top of a weaker one, which comes with a massive unavoidable penalty for multithreaded workloads. Also, most x86 emulators are just not as efficient as Rosetta, adding an additional penalty.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...
[2] https://innative.dev/news/
What are you talking about? Different companies have different cultures and ways of working. I'm talking about experienced staff who bring a wide range of perspectives as opposed to those who have perhaps become institutionalised because they've only worked at one company for the last 20 years. As such I can't see any conflict between the two statements I made above which, by the way, are just that: statements of preference, not ideals.
Thanks mate! You can see the full thing for free here http://arkadia.xyz, It's just the Live Wallpaper version to purchase and support the artists;)
What an absolutely stupid restriction
Do you feel the progress of the project is hindered / benefitted / not effected by any stigmatism in western society? Do you ever find it hard to talk to friends / family / colleagues / strangers about this project?
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>If someone told me they don't love their child but consider it cute I'd also wonder if they should remain the child's guardian.

This is the problem. Children are not pets, and pets are not children. Children are humans, and human lives are infinitely more valuable than the lives of animals. Children have personalities, consciousness, and intelligence. They have the capacity to give and receive actual love. They are fundamentally different things. I would never, ever feel that way about a child.
I've been waiting on an excuse to ditch my faltering Mac. Being able to RDP into an EC2 and build iOS apps or even run an emulator will be huge! Yes I know there were a few other providers before, but hadn't found one that worked in my pipeline.
Honestly, I'm not much concerned with beginner friendliness. As long as there are enough users to maintain and improve its ecosystem, it will stay a good language. The moto of "avoid success at all costs" was correct, and if beginner friendliness comes at the expense of expert usefulness, I'll be glad the second is chosen.

That said, none of that applies to those gotchas. They are clear problems with the language. None of them are obvious, but all of them are widely discussed so you will see them early when learning the language. Learning the gotchas of an ecosystem is a central part of learning any tool on informatics, and as gotchas go, one of the strong points of Haskell is that there are very little of them.

You are making a very common complaint, that comes from ignoring the problems of the tools you know while making a fuzz over anything you find on the new one. It's almost certain that whatever languages you are used to, they have a much larger pile of gotchas than Haskell (because Haskell has an atypical small number of them), but that doesn't stop them from being useful.
I'm wondering if success has ever not come through hardship. It certainly came through hardship in the past. Today seems little different.

Note: 80% of millionaires are first-generation rich - they started off with little, and made their own fortune.
Apparently industries have much more faith in APPL than in AMD. It took way longer to have Rayzen computing nodes than ARM M1 ones.
That's super interesting. Anywhere I can read more about this?
Its pretty standard with AWS. You also get much better performances from an old laptop than most VMs. You don't pay for the hardware but everything else.
Even with empathy (or perhaps it would be better to say, especially with empathy), the good of the many outweighs the good of the few.
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The new effective rent takes over, I assume they are month to month.
They didn't have to open the platform for other software (OS) at all. Let's be happy with what we got.
There's some built-in testing functionality for the games but there aren't much tests for the engine itself in the source package.

Oh and I spent about 3 years working with UE4. The engine is a bug fest.
Setting aside the obvious questions about how wild vs farmed animals are raised, wolves don't have a choice about what to eat, while humans do. Even if we wanted to improve the status of wild animals, murdering wolves isn't obviously the best way.
Doom used fixed-point arithmetic; you may be thinking of Quake, which essentially required the Pentium FPU to be playable.
> The Mac mini isn't intended for that type of use

The mini absolutely is intended for use as a server. It's what Apple provided to Mac Stadium for OSS projects to build on. Very few Mac Pros are used for CI servers, they are mostly used for video and audio processing.
Maybe the children are simply rationalising by saving those who would tend do them less harm?

An adult needn't make that call as they tend to be able to look after themselves.
I'm pretty sure this 2-acre farm will produce two to three orders of magnitude less calories than 720 acres of wheat. or rice.
This is extremely uncommon these days, but back in the dark days of the 1980s buying stocks below book value was a common way that people like Warren Buffet made a lot of money.
I found this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20931499

Looks like someone may have been around this concept a lot longer than I have. But for radio reception, not for long distance atmospheric discharge channeling.

I think the solenoid / filament idea is simply untenable due to the enormous amount of power concentrated in them (a coil would simply vaporize). A much more straightforward idea would be to use an open ended tube capped on one side (with shielding) that is lined on the top and bottom with graphite conductors, in a configuration you might find in a rail gun. Graphite is used as I am hoping some of the crazy thermal issues may be better handled with ablation instead of active cooling. Think of a railgun tube being like a combustion chamber. There may be some advantages to including an magnetic expansion nozzle. Liquid propellant (liquid methane for example) could be injected inside and when the lightning comes in contact with the top and bottom rails massive amounts of current flow and thoroughly ionize the propellant. Huge Lorenz forces from the multi kilo-amp / mega-volt discharge develop in the conductive plasma blasting it out at around. An electromagnetic sheath might be advantageous to keep the hot plasma from pressing too hard on the tube / rails conducting away energy. Exhaust velocity can be tuned depending on needs during boost. On the low end, 200 kilograms could impart ~1000000 newtons of thrust at an exhaust velocity of about 7km/s. On the high end 2 kg of propellant could yield ~100000 newtons, 1/10th the trust but 10 times the specific impulse. Of course these are just rough calculations in very ideal circumstances.
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What manual skills can one learn that pay well, and can be self-taught?

'pay well' means earning (independently or in a job) more than or equal to 60% of the average salary of a Software Engineer, in a given municipality.
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That article is a gem! Thanks!

The author - a surgeon - describes his experience asking and getting a retired surgeon to coach him for self-improvement purposes. It works out really well although he does mention some minor uncomfortableness like having to talk through one almost-fsckup. Although the author lists this as a slight negative it is actually an endorsement of coaching: self-improvement.
These other sources conform more strongly to the existing beliefs and values of prominent groups, right? So they are only more insulting for those outside of that group.
Yup! Interfaces have been a problem in the industry going back decades. See me getting excited about a similar product that catastrophically failed back in 2006 (when I was a young, far less experienced engineer :D ):

https://www.metafetish.com/2006/02/17/je-joue-part-2-my-god-...

Presenting something like this library directly to the user will end up in product death. What I'm building is a tool for developers to refine that end product interface specifically so the user (who is usually horny and does not care about technological details) can have something they can work while in that state.

But it's gonna take a while to get there.
>I also agree with you that human life doesn't have intrinsic value.

Then I guess this is ultimately the difference in our thinking. I hold that all human life has intrinsic value, and that that value is infinitely greater than any animal regardless of the person.
OP here. When I first saw that headline on Torrentfreak, and before even clicking on that link, I immediately thought "Prenda!" so I'm glad you linked to Ken White's excellent running commentary at Popehat on the long, sorry saga. Prenda Law was also covered well by Mike Masnick at Techdirt over the years: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150606/07053031246/team-... and also on the dearly departed Groklaw. A search here at HN yields a good amount of Prenda Law submissions from over the years.
Below is the majority of the post, before it gets in to all the links and such, run through SMMRY[0] set to only use 7 sentences (92% reduction). It obviously doesn't tell the full story, but it isn't bad for a tl;dnr.

My name is Maxim and I'm an independent game developer.

With millions of downloads it is definitely my most successful game so far, and that's thanks to a very active fan base which I'm very grateful to have.

It's really cool to see people play the game in front of your eyes.

You evaluate behavior - are they passionate gamers? Or rather cold business people.

You check out their game - it looks like a copy of a popular game you know.

The answer So as with many other people who offered to buy the game - you politely decline.

How come? How come a copycat can use the name of the original game? You guessed it... trademarks.

[0] https://smmry.com/
You can find people who claim all kinds of things on the internet. That doesn't mean they're credible.
"I'm convinced that if only we could get a word in with management, and explain what a monad is, they'd consider using Haskell"

Not an actual quote, but I liked the scene it brought to mind.
I guess the easiest way to see it in practice is in winter when FWD cars put snow chains on the front wheels. As long as they’re driving uphill it’s OK, but as soon as you drive down the mountain you’ll see cars spinning out of control. At the slightest turning circle, The inertia of the car will push the back out, and 99% of drivers don’t know how to deal with that situation- so they brake and try to turn harder, which makes things even worse.

Obviously if everyone was used to driving RWD and countering oversteer , you wouldn’t need to put the best tires at the back. But the reflexes for the vast majority of drivers are to brake of things get tricky (which is perfectly fine for normal FWd driving)
Strange, Apple should be subsidizing compilation for Apple's platform instead.
I’ve yet to see a contraceptive that claims to prevent 100% of pregnancies.
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I wouldn't bet on some major wealth-transfer from the boomers to their kids. I think a lot of them subscribe to that whole "die broke" philosophy and are using things like reverse mortgages to live it up on their inflated home equity, hoping to die just as the bank owns their home.
Sleep and breathing are (obviously?) related.
There are MicroSD to CD card adapters out there. A bit clunky but they allow you to use full sized SD cards, which might be more durable
I had a corporate landlord in Foster City and asked, they wouldn’t budge and invited me to reapply for a different apartment at a lower rate as the lease was up. I live in LA now.
You didn't read my comment that is right next to yours. Or the one that you replied to, where I mentioned cert pinning. You are repeating my comments back to me.

The device does not always need to have a special trust relationship with the client browser, since a trust relationship can already exist with FTU.