skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that any Mars colony should very quickly become independent.

However, I think we should wait until there are enough people on Mars that there can be a small representative government (or other form of government that they would choose).

Mars shouldn't be independent when the first 10 people land on the surface of the planet.

This tos item has always been my biggest complaint about Starlink. I shouldn't be forced to take a position on premature Martian independence just because I hate Comcast.
Off topic, but were you involved in PowerQuery/PowerPivot as well?

I have moved away from Excel, but was one of the first users of PQ/PP, it was a great step forward and my understanding is PowerBI was an extension of that.

Congrats because everybody I know loves PowerBI! Well done, even if the rewards may not have been commiserate.
> "We owe ourselves..."

That's a bit of a hostile "we". I and my bank don't have any debt, considered as a group. Technically true, but doesn't make my mortgage go away.

> What is the worst that can happen?

When governments can't/won't pay their debts, the way out is printing money to pay with. This has in at least one case led to the Holocaust.

Low sample size, but still.
Speaking as someone who cut out caffeine cold turkey, it's a different thing

I got stinking headaches for a week, but not an overwhelming urge to drink caffeine

When smokers quit, they almost always describe the urge to smoke rather than the physical side effects, often described more like hunger.
Sure that's counting all processes? My Safari process stays the same size no matter how many tabs, but I'll get a bunch of web content processes. Although that would apply to Chrome, too, of course.
Wall Street Journal wouldn't even let me do it online or via email, forced to call and go through a similar runaround.
The lens is OK, but it won't solve the issue where the pixels appear as pixels on an LCD screen.

So you probably still want a filter.

Still, this is nice + probably better than using a shader for the distortion.
Won't inflation reduce debt? I can see massive inflation on the horizon.
I don't think it's inflamatory to investigate some user. We all tend to lend credibility to those we perceive as having detailed knowledge.

What I was talking about is that the topic of this thread is unfortunately inflammatory due to regional politics, so we should be careful to maintain a standard of discussion.
Yes agreed - debt repayment is more important that total debt. People always confuse this stuff (understandably).
Let’s think from other side. It’s a great geopolitical move. Russia build a power plant almost on the EU border. It will be paid by Belarus. That’s even cooler. Now imagine some bad event going in Vilnius. Like some NATO conference. 30 minutes before it radioactive water comes through the river Neris and the city must be evacuated. Conference didn’t happen. I even don’t see a good way for city evacuation. There is not enough road capacity to the west. Like 2 roads with 2 lanes each. During serious nuclear disaster the whole city is sitting ducks, there is not place to hide and no road to run.
Cultivating native species, once they have been eliminated, is actually very time consuming. Cover crops, invasive species, and depleted soil (if it was farmed) all contribute to conditions that favor bad plants over good.

Fallow doesn't equal native prairie or woodlands. Fallow just equals empty. You really have to work a lot at it to be able to foster a native habitat, for a few years, then it mostly takes care of itself.

Source; farming, self-sustaining landscapes, and harvesting local flora and fauna has been my hobby for 3 decades or so.
People often choose gold jewelry because of its value as a metal. Either because they want to be able to cash it in one day (a traditional form of family savings for some communities) or because an expensive gift is preferred to a cheap one, even if the cheap one had all the same physical properties.
This graph includes private sector debt, which has interest rates all over the place.

Only about 1/3 of it is government debt. Keep that in mind when trying to put it in context.
Maybe I got it backwards, but it’s a PR post, and the burden is on the author to make the point clear. I’ve read it 3 times and still can’t find any sentence where they state clearly what the development strategy is.

And from link #2 that you posted, I see they talk about the curl stuff, but also show a bunch of repos with tools rewritten from scratch, e.g. https://github.com/ctz/rustls

So I really cannot draw a conclusion one way or the other.

Normally I’m an optimist, but after the recent chromium misunderstandings, I am going to err on the cynical side.
Serious question: Why is an app like Clubhouse using external services such as Agora and PubNub and relinquishing control over their core app functionality (audio rooms)? Wouldn't that be something they would want to engineer in-house?
I wonder if you were to just use a burner credit card (e.g. one of those virtual ones you can generate over your existing credit card) and use that to sign up. Then send them an email saying that you are cancelling the subscription and cancelling the credit card the subscription is with as well. I wonder if this would allow you to not waste your time dealing with their ridiculous process. The only potential issue I could see would be someone sending you to collections because they record you as cancelled when your payments start to fail.
I recently discovered this option in ruby's Sequel gem.

This helps me in seamlessly copying databases during downtimes to another database like SQLite.

e.g.

sequel -C postgres://localhost:5432/pgdatabase sqlite://copieddb.sqlite
It refers to Americans and Australians too, to make things worse. They should be saying Anglophones.
Indeed.

Lenders conveniently forget the reason they can charge interest is because there's a risk they won't be paid back.

Yet when these private investments go back, they always go to the government to be subsidised with a bailout.
grrr why are they introducing guard {} blocks? Would not want an extra level of {block} just for this.

__attribute__((cleanup)) gcc/clang extension already works without extra blocks. GLib has been using it for a while https://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2015/01/30/g_autoptr/
I think you're missing the point of the article a bit. Everyone knows Heroin is dangerous and it's iterated on in the article as well. Only responsible and healthy individuals should self-use drugs, generally speaking.

Then you can also argue that you might not have lost your friends only because of Heroin the substance, but also how people with heroin addiction is "treated" and frowned upon in society.

I think what the article is trying to say is that harm reduction is a much more human and possibly effective approach to fighting real addition. Compared to other ways, which some of them include "there is no such thing as responsible drug use, it's all addiction" and treating people as such.
If Adam shoots Bill with the intent to kill him, leaves the scene, and paramedics rush Bill to the hospital, and he lives, Bill is not murdered. Bill was the victim of an aggravated assault

I can't vouch for the reliability of this source[1], but it will serve for my example here. The murder rate in the US was 5 and 5.1 in 1960 and 2019 respectively. The aggravated assault rate was shot from 86 to 250.

Life didn't get safer, we just got better at saving lives.

Then again, this looks like its probably based on UCR data, which is sent to the FBI from local/state law enforcement. I imagine there are certain demographics, especially in 1960s America, that didn't get crimes against them reported with full accuracy.

There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. Especially regarding crime. "Gun violence" can include suicide in some reporting systems, and not in others. Some will put a shooting at a bank robbery in with the same category as a single mother shooting an intruder in her home, and some wont.

My point is that the subject of safety is far more complicated than "See, less people are dead, it's safer". Imagine a special forces team of 20 conducts 100 hostage rescues in a year, gets in a firefight in every one, takes multiple injuries, but no one dies. Now imagine the logistics unit of 20 that performs maintenance, paperwork, administrative functions, etc, at a forward operating base has one of their members crushed by a vending machine.

1 in 20 people in logistics died, 0 in 20 in the special ops team died. Most people would not reasonably argue that the logistics team was more dangerous.

[1]http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
> Nonfinancial private sector debt alone now makes up 165% of the entire world's economic output.

What does this mean? Do they just mean 'is as large as' rather than 'makes up'?
The biggest downside is you live in bum fucking nowhere. You’re stuck in a social circle you can’t escape from and the only escape is to get on Starlink and talk to people about the good old days when we used to sit in traffic and huff exhaust fumes, but at least we had options. There’s only 2 grocery stores in town and they’re full of the lowest denominator crap because nobody in your town has any good taste. The kids your kid grows up with have stupid parents and are stupid themselves, so your smart kid grows up feeling isolated and like there’s something wrong with them because they’re different. Maybe your kid pulls through it all or maybe tries to numb out with drugs and ODs. Maybe you develop a bad reputation around town for your differences (maybe your an atheist in a town of Christians, I don’t know) and get blackballed from social events. Maybe you go to the bar and everyone’s in a relationship except for you. Or maybe you’re gay but there’s nowhere to be out. The movie theater only has 2 screens and only runs G and PG movies. The biggest music act you saw this year was a cover of “My heart will go on” played by an 8 year old on the Clarinet at the Little Miss Chokecherry Festival. You tried to expose the town to the culture you’re into but everyone just thinks you’re weird. The traveling salesman problem gets a million times harder.

Basically unless everyone is plugged into the net all the time in some massively fulfilling way or rearranges perfectly every generation to avoid cultural bubbles, small towns suck and people leave them for a reason. They head to cities and those cities become thriving multicultural hubs of new ideas that slowly make their way back to the smaller towns.
Actually the computing power of Ingenuity surpasses one of the Perseverance rover (and probably by a lot). The rover has a radiation hardened RAD 750 CPU (based on PowerPC 750 architecture, which was introduced in 1997 to compete with Intel's Pentium II [1,2]) with 250-150nm technology process operating at 200Mhz[3]. Ingenuity's Snapdragon 801 can reach up to 2.5 GHz and is based on more energy-efficient 28nm modern (released in 2014) ARM architecture [4]. This CPU even has Wi-Fi and GPS, though probably not much of a use on Mars :)

1. https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/space-grade-cpus-how...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAD750

3. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/brains/

4. https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon-processors-801
The playing card collector market has been growing over the past years, supported by the increase in interest from card collectors, cardists and magicians alike.

The increase in demand has led to an increase in available online distributors where one can buy the decks of cards we want. With such an increase in distribution, it has become quite time consuming to hunt down the perfect deck of cards, especially if those cards are hype decks or limited editions.

The site has been built to help playing card collectors, cardists and magicians find the playing cards they want by providing a single, easy to use interface to search across the ever-expanding list of distributors across the globe and presenting options where a specific deck can be purchased.

Whether you are looking for 'gilded' decks, 'limited editions', or a specific brand, simply enter what you're looking for and let the site do the grunt work. It will not only look for your specific deck, but may also make recommendations of other decks similar to what you're looking for.
My understanding is that the mortgage crisis of 2007 is an example of something like this going bad. Technically it was just Americans owing money to other Americans right? But I think how these things go bad is something like:

- Some loans start to default. Either randomly, or because the easy availability of credit encourages riskier projects.

- Conservative lenders get spooked and exit. Credit becomes a bit scarcer.

- This repeats in a cycle. Each round wipes out more businesses. At first it's mostly the obviously risky ones, but increasingly it's normal business with unlucky timing.

- People start to see the writing on the wall, credit markets lock up, and panic sets in. Major corporations find themselves unable to make payroll. Ordinary financial stuff like currency exchanges stop working, while everyone scrambles to figure out which intermediary banks might be insolvent.
How strange, I just picked up a book from my bookshelf, my old copy of Starting Forth by Leo Brodie. I was trying to remember if Forth was created by Charles Moore or Calvin Moores. Charles Moore invented Forth.

I really enjoyed reading Starting Forth when it came out. I've used Starting Forth together with Threaded Interpretive Languages: Their Design and Implementation by R. G. Loeliger to create my own Forth system. This second book is not about "threads" as we know them today; threading is a way to very efficiently dispatch the execution of Forth primitives.

Calvin Moores is a language inventor too. I've also implemented a version of his language TRAC. TRAC is mentioned prominently in a book that I really enjoyed while in grad school in the 70's, Computer Lib by Ted Nelson. Described by Wikipedia as the first book on personal computers.

The appeal of Forth, and even more so of TRAC, is that they are very simple languages to implement. It is completely possible to implement either language in assembly language, but C would be a bit easier. As a project to learn Perl, back when it was new, I wrote a TRAC interpreter over a couple of days.

TRAC, like the roughly contemporaneous language GPM invented by Christopher Strachey, is a macro processor. GPM and TRAC are "Turing complete" macro processors. So they can be used to write arbitrary programs and are in fact designed for this purpose.

Some links/references:

Leo Brodie, Starting FORTH : an introduction to the FORTH language and operating system for beginners and professionals, Prentice-Hall, 1987. https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/

Martin Campbell-Kelly, Christopher Strachey, 1916-1975: A Biographical Note, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 1985, https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/1985/01/man1985010...

R. G. Loeliger, Threaded Interpretive Languages: Their Design and Implementation, BYTE Books, 1979, https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=2253615473...

Calvin Moores, TRAC, A Procedure-Describing Language for the Reactive Typewriter, CACM Vol 9, Num 3, March 1966, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/365230.365270

Ted Nelson, Computer Lib/Dream Machines, self-published, 1974, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Lib/Dream_Machines
Unfortunately that is a misleading headline since these are not better assertions for Python tests. These appear to be an attempt to infect Python code with pointless verbosity found in AssertJ or Hamcrest for Java.
(DEBT repayments)/GDP >>> important then DEBT/GDP. Right now debt is super cheap so might as well stock up.
I am not an astronomer, but I have an idea and maybe folks could tell me if this makes sense. AFAIK some astronomers use digital optics and a computer with their telescopes. For those people, perhaps a solution would be to have software that identifies the satellites, then learns to "ignore" them. The satellites are moving relative to the earth which suggests if you are focused on one area of space, your computer will eventually see 100% of the space. So while not perfect, you could in effect make the satellites invisible. For those using a traditional telescope this obviously would not help. Thoughts? Is this feasible today using current technology?
Testimony of Keith Gill (U/DFV) Before the U.S. House Committee [pdf]
If I but my money in this bitcoin thing I keep hearing about, would I not be as exposed to global debt?
On the flip-flip side, he's one person spreading harm reduction about drugs that are currently frowned upon. If you look in society right now, you have people (and businesses!) marketing much more harmful drugs to people of all ages with fancy ads and more. Not a lot of people are reacting to that though.
ITT we all come up with character flaws to explain a person’s genetic condition.
>If your numbers are accurate >=55% of the demand for Gold is completely organic and because of the desire of human beings to wear it.

It's not as simple as that. If people wanted gold jewelry for the appearance the pieces would be gold plated.
Any reliable sources which would confirm that Belarus indeed uses "the cheapest" package without "extra safety features"?
I've been given opioid prescriptions a few times in my life, and I've never found myself wanting to take them for their own sake or suffering from withdrawal afterward.

It's probably some variable physiological response - hopefully one day we'll have a good way of profiling a priori which people may have difficulty with using opioids in a controlled fashion so people don't have to suffer to find out they're among the unlucky ones. (Or maybe we'll come up with either a new class of drugs to replace opioids entirely, or a cocktail to block the adverse effects...)
I suppose D would also fall into this category.

Although I find it interesting that Common Lisp gets left off these lists. It's memory-safe (with GC of course), has great integration with existing C libraries via CFFI, has a formal spec, has a solid library ecosystem, supports a "mostly-functional-but-imperative-if-you-need-it" programming style, has optional/gradual compile-time type checking, and at least one open/libre implementation generates fast native code (SBCL).

Might as well throw OCaml in the mix too, since it has all of the above minus the formal spec.
I strongly recommend everyone watch Raph Koster's talk "Still Logged In: What AR and VR Can Learn from MMOs"[1] about the ethical issues involved in VR/AR... and how VR/AR can be used as a weapon.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgw8RLHv1j4
The repayment of the debt for each year is usually by law a required set aside in budgeting before the rest of the revenue can be allocated. If there is less and less left for annual operation costs because we keep increasing our debt reliance, that will hurt people who rely on public services. If the laws are changed to make timely repayment on these bonds and treasuries optional, that will affect their credit rating, and the cost of borrowing, which means we have to pay more each year to get the same debt financing. It's not a good place to be.
It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

I could absolutely see C++ devs jumping ship to Rust. I think const generics just stabilized or is about to. That was one of the first shortcomings I noticed when I learned Rust. I think custom allocators is pretty much the next big piece that would give C++ devs pause today.

But I don't see Rust picking up a lot of C devs. Rust is significantly more complex than C. You certainly don't have to use traits and Futures, etc, but you also don't have to use a bunch of features of C++ either and C devs still don't jump to C++.

Zig certainly gets a lot of buzz here, but I haven't personally looked into it. It does certainly sound like it's designed to appeal to the C crowd.
Australian govt condemns Facebook’s ‘wrong’ and ‘heavy handed’ actions
You absolutely can allocate memory without using up any backing resources. On Linux (which is where I have experience, but I assume macos works similarly), even after mapping some memory, it won't be backed by any physical memory (e.g. RAM) until you actually write there. And you can mmap files into your address space, meaning you can place a huge file you can access through memory, but it's not actually taking any RAM, the kernel is just doing the reading of each "chunk" of the file as you access them, unloading the old bits once you stop using them for a while.

Measuring memory usage is hard.
> the median startup option package was exercised for a profit of $30k

That must be one of those cases where "median" and "average" are very different.
The linked blog post doesn’t state it explicitly, but I suspect that the non-Brave browsers were not equipped with any kind of adblocking for the test. Brave has built in adblocking, so if my suspicions are true the test is rather disingenuous. At minimum Firefox and Chrome should have uBlock Origin installed and Safari should have Wipr or 1blocker installed to make it fair.
Does society look stable and secure to you right now?
> A number of non-news Facebook pages were captured by the automatic bans, including government pages delivering key health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as South Australia Health and Queensland Health. The national domestic violence hotline, 1800 Respect, and Bureau of Meteorology were also blocked from posting.
Chrome is a pig for sure, but most attempts I see at measuring memory consumption are wrong. The two main ways they're typically wrong is either by misunderstanding how memory works (which is to be expected, it's subtle![1]) or by doing the measurement wrong (e.g. confusing CPU usage for RAM, or looking at the wrong process, or using a memory consuming extension in one setting but not the other). I think this post does both.

(Disclaimer: I worked on Chrome. I believe the conclusion "uses a lot of RAM" is correct, but it doesn't mean the reasoning that led to there is right.)

[1] http://neugierig.org/software/blog/2011/05/memory.html
That's exactly why prescriptions exist, so that doctors can limit the time taking the opioids and reduce the risk of addiction

If anyone were left to their own devices and still in pain, I suspect a lot more than 8% would continue to take the painkillers.
Are there benefits in using heroin?
I learned years ago to cancel everything in writing, via post. It sounds anachronistic, but actually takes less time and stress. Companies don't mess with letter writers. There's a lot of legal precedent behind us.
If you cannot run what you want on the device, do you really own it?
Because it’s not the ultimate pathway to euphoria for everyone.

Some of us don’t like the “sinking into oblivion” feeling of that class of drugs. I don’t want to feel like my IQ has been sliced in half. Really hate it actually.

The dragon to chase is of the functional businessman’s variety- cocaine. I’d rather take something that enhances my life experience, turns conversation in liquid gold oozing from mouth. Opiates and barbiturates temporarily hide your problems under a blanket of haze, confusion, and constipation. No thanks.
It's easy to speak philosophically when you have no dog in the race. It's harder when you need a GPU for other tasks and have to pay the crypto tax.
This is primarily aimed at those running very large vdevs comprised of lots of disks. FTA:

> The dRAID offers a solution for large arrays, vdevs with fewer than 20 spindles will have limited benefits from the new option. The performance and resilver result will be similar to RAIDZ for small numbers of spindles.

If you're doing a 6-8 disk array, this probably isn't relevant to your interests.

If you're doing a 20+ disk array, well firstly, damn, you've been lucky if you've avoided any serious issues. Secondly, you really want to look into this ASAP.
Essentially all Fukushima related deaths were caused by the evacuation, which many now consider to have been a mistake https://www.ft.com/content/000f864e-22ba-11e8-add1-0e8958b18...