skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm learning Russian and I seriously have to think twice if I want to swear in Russian because I feel like I'd be crossing a line, there's nothing casual about it.

I don't feel quite the same about Spanish, although the expletives that are more layered in metaphor amuse me more than anything else. Me cago en la leche!
Help welcome: https://www.plasma-mobile.org/contributing/ :)
We're discussing San Francisco, where rent control policy works primarily by capping the yearly increases. It's always lower than inflation, too.

Shrinking units is an great thought! That's such a plausible mechanism that SF has gone ahead and done the thing its politics centers on - making building that form of housing difficult too. Parking minimums, density restrictions, and so on all affect the wonderful idea that is micro-apartments. And attempts to cut costs with pre-fab units assembled off-site ran directly into political conflicts as well.

It's impossible to read about the politics of housing in SF without arriving at the understanding that SF just really doesn't want to allow any new housing.
Ask HN: Anyone making decent money from Google (workspace) Add-Ons?
Toyota doesn't need to innovate or push limits. They built an incredibly deep moat of customer loyalty with high end customers. They can coast and just copy what works 5-10yr after the fact and still make money hand over fist (for now).
Garbage bin collection is more useful to society than boobs pics.
Paxos paper was one of my favorite reads back in grad school. Would highly recommend
Your landlord doesn’t save on HOA fees, repairs, taxes, or insurance because they bought 20 years ago. Those are all costs that are charged in present dollars. Repair services want to get paid in 2021 dollars. Property taxes are based on assessments of current value. Insurance premiums are set to cover present replacement costs.

The only thing your landlord saves on by buying 20 years ago is the nominal cost of the property itself, either as a low fixed mortgage payment, or as a paid-off property.

This is just the effect of time and a fixed mortgage rate. If you were able to buy now, in 20 years you could be in the same position with respect to your property costs.
Yeah, that makes sense. If you don‘t feel you will be able to comfortably and effectively do the work, no point in forcing it.

I really recommend you give mouse driven full screen zoom a good try. Whatever job you do, it will be a QoL improvement in computing. The key, imho, is to not move focus with your eyes much but instead move focus under your eyes with the mouse. Don‘t shy away from larger magnifications than you need to read text, but instead make it really comfortable for whatever field of vision you have. I also move the zoom level in and out almost as much as the focus, while reading/writing/interacting. This part may only work well with the smooth gesture zoom of macOS where you can do both at the same time and a laptop where you can access the trackpad with your thumbs from home row.

I‘m sorry for going into unsolicited rant mode on this. I just see other visually impaired people struggle with their super large font settings and think they could work better. It may just be my specific kind of bad vision, idk.
I just assumed the inflation rate was applied to both rent and house price, as a general change in the value of a dollar. While they mostly move in line together, rent prices and home prices don't always move together so a change in value term that effects one and not the other might be useful.
To loop back to the original point, Neat arrays are pointer + length + base. This is necessary for refcounting, but it also allows managing capacity, ie. appending to slices. D gets away with pointer + length, but it can ask the GC for capacity.
We usually have more screenshots in our blog posts. See https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2021/06/10/plasma-mobile-updat... and https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2021/04/27/plasma-mobile-updat....
I have known a lot of "dancers", I lived in a high rise next to an upscale joint.

The biggest problem is that their professional skills are fleecing men out of money.

"Who has deep pockets and how can I get the most money out of them?"

It's not like you can just turn off that mentality once they quit.
> One thing I think ought to be stigmatized more is video game usage. I know many people (mostly men) my age (late adolescence) whose lives have been/were destroyed by chronic video game addiction.

Why stigmatize something instead of the addiction itself? I knew someone who poured themselves into music production and fantasy to the detriment of everything else. Would you stigmatize music?

Perhaps if something is almost always destructive then some social or legal regulation is warranted. I don't see that with gaming, despite the damage caused by outliers.
This is a really interesting article, but I can’t ignore my pet peeve:

It has a section titled “Not Just Semantics,” but of course they really mean “syntax.” Semantics is meaning!
Presenting AtomiQL – A Union of Atomic State and GraphQL
But how could they have proceed legaly, when the central government made it clear, they never respect their right of self determination?
That's what I do. Laptops are low power devices with a built-in UPS. I use a 2nd gen i5 laptop for a valheim server, dns adblocker, Plex server, and torrent seeder. It's been going strong for over 2 years now.
Most licenses would require attribution and some notion of the license(s) of the code behind the suggestion.
Since others are using this as a forum to share great CS papers, here’s one of my favorites: Programming as Theory Building - Peter Naur

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
> the lower middle class are (to generalise) materially well-off ... they have large televisions ... through pure boredom/decadence they were radicalised ... about things they largely don't fully grasp

8/10 top parody comment. You could have strengthened it by suggesting they turn to brioche if they don't have enough bread to eat though.
Yeah as sfink said (and I should have clarified and used different vocabulary), this was "native" performance for most typical tasks like programming, it wasn't a gaming setup. Though there was still hardware accelerated graphics through VirtualBox.
It's a lot of small inconsistencies that add up. Like the wifi icon being the wrong size for the amount of spacing it has around it, and also the fact that it's unclear what it actually does without clicking on it.

The spacing in the settings menu in the final screenshot is horrible too, the text gap sizes just change for no reason and the design has two layers of headers that aren't visually distinct enough.
I fixed the title
Curious, why does one or two people leaving make it suck? If this is often the case, maybe management should find ways to address. More money, more opportunities. etc.
This happened to me with the Foo Fighters. That mentos music video they did- I hated the video, song, and I hated TFF. By the time their next song was out I hated it on principle. Finally I had to admit I was wrong, they were great. Now they are one of my favorite bands with some of my favorite songs.
The average salary of a firefighter in the United States is $52k. Teachers average $15/hour. No clue where you're getting these outrageous figures other than if you're a Californian and think anything about California is "normal" in the sense of the rest of the United States. If 30+ states pay firefighters $50k, and teachers make $15/hr in 40 states... actually makes California look like what it is, a massive bubble.
where are the profits going? if a German company opens a factory in Hungary where it produces let's sau Automotive parts of course Hungary develops a trade surplus. they sell automotive parts to Germany. however the profits of the German HU subsidiary will all go back to Germany. that trade surplus means nothing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_Air_Force_n... was a fairly recent similar incident where a set of live warheads sat around for 36 hours unguarded.
Marek's Disease
Zero data of the effects after three years. Plenty of data about the effects after one. It's not “reasoning without data”; it's reasoning without as much data as one would have liked.

Are you doing this on purpose?
That's sort of the intent of the emergency fund goal. If you put that as a higher priority, it will maintain that much in cash holdings.
The numbers look like a combination of increased import of electricity and move away from lower efficiency thermal cycles for electricity production (primary energy use is the thermal energy before going through the heat engine; replacement of coal and nuclear with gas and wind would reduce primary energy use even if electricity production were unchanged.)
> For home, I have two USB disks I use for backups and I alternate which I use. Neither is plugged in at the same time. At least one is always "cold".

Why not have one of those drives off site, and rotate every so often? Carry the drive with you when you swap, so that the original and all backups are not in the same place at the same time.

I have three external drives. Originally I planned to keep two offsite, but I don't have an offsite office anymore.
This is the first manned flight for Blue Origin, right? Why do you think Bezos choose to go on the first flight?
size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer
"In the UK, the lower middle class are (to generalise) materially well-off; they own their own homes, they have a couple of cars, they have large televisions, one partner does not have to work, etc."

I'm glad you added "(to generalise)" in there, because I'd class myself as 'lower middle' and most of my family/friends in a similar bracket absolutely cannot function without both partners working, and a majority are renting rather than buying their home. I'd argue that what you've described is only true of those OLDER lower middle class folks (like my parents) who struck it lucky before the housing market lost its mind.

The only reason I personally fit into your description (well, I only have one car) is that I was lucky to find my way into the software industry which pays a heck of a lot better than most...
Personally, I keep a list of issues I face daily. From network outages to uncommunicating coworkers. Most of these come with the territory. Others are absolute deal-breakers. Those are the ones I keep an eye on.

Ex. we have a team member that obviously lies about working. Not the results, literally what he does all day. He sets his status to available, logs into his VM (I guess he figured out we were collecting that information) and basically is being deceitful. Management is dragging its feet. This is a deal-breaker if not resolved.
I wonder if they could generate the correct license to code copilot produces, and maybe even infer the preferred one from repo and generate code that is restricted to that?
> If that "device::Data::new()" is equivalent to the many lines of init in the C version, it looks less footguny.

The Rust version is probably more robust, I would hope and assume so. However it looks considerably more complex, I think even if I knew Rust I'd have a harder time parsing it and trying to figure out what it tries to do, compared to the C version.

So maybe we could say the Rust version is harder to parse but easier to reason about once parsed.

> How are you sure that "gpiochip_get_data(irq_data_get_irq_chip_data(...))" never fails and can be safely dereferrenced ?

Fair point, it should have a check there. Which makes this comparison a bit harder, given that the code is so different.
It's not a steal.

Same reason my favorite author can't go "I've decided I hate my books, so give them all back" and force me to remove them from my bookshelf. They're not hers anymore.
Why Privacy-enhancing technology is the future of computing
You put a drop of inexpensive tincture on your tongue and it cures cancer how is it possible to overhype that?
Computing Machinery and Intelligence [1]

By A. M. Turing

October 1950

This paper introduces the concept of the Imitation Game, which would eventually be referred to as the Turing test. [2]

[1] https://academic.oup.com/mind/article-pdf/LIX/236/433/986611...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
The real point of meditation is immolation of the person doing it. Done correctly, no Buddhism or religion can help you. Vehicle is discarded after destination.

Caveat empor, act accordingly.
Preact is awesome and the tooling around it is really refreshing. I'd choose it over react for almost all use cases.
Makes sense, just like you and me, Bezos is totally powerless in changing this.

Good to know that even the richest man in the world sometimes can not change the evil going on 12 levels below him in his company.
Ok, so what is the better metric?

I'm pretty sure Gflops on f.ex. this site is without SIMD as it makes no sense to compare CPUs like that: http://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/group/green_machines.html
My observations are that it's typically other women who make comments about women not wearing makeup, not men. Or more generally speaking, it's other women who comment most on women's appearance (dress, makeup, hair, etc.) than men. Honestly, from what I've observed, most men seem rather oblivious to it most of the time (though obviously, not all the time).
Crash your iPhone keyboard on iOS 14.7 by deleting 睷\u0000睷睷\u0000
IANAL, but that is not my reading. They cover "Your Content" with the license grant, but not "any Content". The user still has the right to post "any Content" if they have the appropriate license to do so, but obviously they can't grant additional licenses to content the user doesn't own.

In my understanding your reading is that users uploading code that they don't own the copyright to, but otherwise have the right to copy through a license, are in violation with the ToS in general.

My reading is that the license grant only applies to "Your Content" as defined in the ToS, and otherwise users are free to upload code with permissive license and it _does not grant_ additional licenses to Github.
Blue Origin first human flight
Or they could just develop decent sanctions and enforce them. Hungary is a massive net recipient of EU funds, which seems a great starting lever, plus throw just the smallest amount of friction into their Schengen status, and you've got something pretty potent there.
Neural networks can be Turing-complete, which could in theory allow embedded malware to actually run and do things. I can imagine a compiler that targeted neural networks and allowed programs to be compiled to run silently within them.

What it could do is of course highly dependent on what the neural network is doing and how it's embedded in an application. In many cases it would not be able to do much, but if the neural network is controlling something or has any mechanism to feed back into the app and execute commands...

Then "attacks only get better."
Twitter Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene for Anti-Vaccine Tweets
> The next olympics are in China and are bankrolled by the government.

Yes, because the Chinese Government makes its money from capitalist nations.
> The majority of mathematicians quickly became "Formalists", holding that pure mathematics could not be philosophically considered more than a sort of elaborate game played with marks on paper (this is the theory behind Robert Heinlein's pithy characterization of mathematics as "a zero-content system").

This isn't quite what Formalism is, at least not as Hilbert -- the originator of that philosophy -- described it. In short, Formalism says that some mathematical sentences might not have an external meaning, and those are the ones that are no more than a game with symbols.

More precisely, Hilbert divided mathematical formulas to "real," those that do have external meaning, and "ideal", those that do not. The real formulas are usually finitary, while the ideal ones usually deal with infinities. Formalism is the view that mathematics is allowed to contain ideal sentences provided that they do not yield contradictions with real ones.
> Many of them want a partner–they’ll be in charge of the idea, and I’ll execute it.

Boy, does that sound familiar. In my experience, they'll also get most of the money and credit, and will plan to kick me to the curb, once it gets to alpha.

> I hate to break it to you, but your idea–any idea, really–is worthless. An idea only has value when it is executed, and it only has a lot of value when it’s executed well.

And that "executed well" is important. I have seen so many promising ideas and systems destroyed by being written by "lowest common denominator" implementation talent.
This is similar to another hack I heard: put some clear tape over your camera lens to blur the image. "It looks fine on my end??? I'll just keep my camera off."
Over 97% of currently hospitalized for Covid-19 were unvaccinated
fyi, explosive "ordnance" is spelled without the i.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/506723/how-did-o...
Officers who caused giant blast likely to have made 'significant miscalculation'
Dmesg – Unix/Linux command, beginners introduction with examples
> German automakers ... have been holding Merkel back against Orban

Between this, Nord Stream 2, etc, Germany's commercial elite are having more and more to answer for...
Yep. And if it is so hard to do, how come the attackers can restore your systems when you pay them?
My mind went to Quine as well. One issue is that the empirical world is really some representation of it via human senses, or some consensual agreement on it. I'm not trying to question that there is an external reality, but (along the lines of Quine) one might argue that our understanding of it -- our perception of it, and mental representation of it -- is fundamentally a human representation.

One might argue the same thing about math, that at some level it's fundamentally a human creation. In fact, regardless of your position on this, I think it's maybe safe to argue that if one accepts the legitimacy of the question "why is mathematics so useful in representing the external world?" that person is implicitly accepting the idea that math is at some level a human -- i.e., internal -- construct, otherwise the question wouldn't make sense.

As such, someone might argue that the reason math is so good at representing external reality is because it's part of our representational system for external reality. That is, they're both the same: "external reality" is really "our understanding of external reality" which is in turn part of the same representational system as math.

... at least that's what I think the Quinian perspective would be? He probably wrote about this somewhere but something like that is my guess. I think a more useful discussion might be something like "why does math work at all in prediction?"

One interesting thing that arises from a Quinian take -- and is maybe implied by the essay in the discussion of areas where math doesn't predict well -- is that it's possible that actual reality deviates in significant ways from what is afforded by our current mathematics, that maybe there's some other representational system that would be better. "Mathematics" is sufficiently broad in scope that I think whatever it is would still be subsumed under that label (raising the tautological argument again) but at least the idea is there's possibly some way in which our current mathematical understanding is "off" in a very fundamental way, like at the level of fundamental logic or something.
I think that in the age of autonomous robotics the reality gap between math and meat space is more relevant than ever. But the article does not really get into the hot and messy part. The closest match I know of is the varied field of cybernetics.
As someone who's dealt with the mass of incompetence that can barely be described as a human organization which we refer to as the USCIS: That's a pretty shitty joke.
New Shepard First Human Flight [Live]
There are also some machine interpretable bits of ISO standards available [1].

[1] https://standards.iso.org/
Is the existence of this product not completely offensive to Apple? If I were them, I would be looking for ways to sue NSO, or otherwise to obtain the Pegasus software and patch all of the vulnerabilities it exploits.
According to the article, Germany is also looking to build one... Just assign the task to the Deutsche Bahn, what could possibly go wrong!

Before corona times, there used to be stations closing because too many people are called in sick or at vacation. Trains stopping in the middle of nowhere and conductor announcing, "eerm, yeah, we are having technical difficulties" and you just sit there for at least an hour without any updates. Not sure how it is now but...
People in general are bad at driving and the potential for harm is much higher in a car than a bike due to the kinetic energy involved. Read about how complicated human visual perception is, how cognition changes at the slightest distraction, and how our 'clear' mental picture is often more interpolated than it is real. I mean, there are 6 million car crashes every year in the United States alone.
Billionaires just polarized space exploration
I was being a bit facetious, but it didn't translate :)
> Are you referring to Twitch

I wasn't directly. Twitch is just another broadcast medium. The only thing that's different is that its normally private, so young teens/adults can view the stream without the parents being aware.

What is perplexing to me is that in our[1] society, public violence against women is almost never accepted. Men are shamed[2] and hung out to dry for doing it(if they are caught)

but we as a culture accept intimidating and violent behavior towards women on the internet. If I were to hurl abuse in the street at a woman in the same way that is done online, I'd be punched.

So I'm not sure why there is a divide between online/offline here. I have a few ideas, but nothing concrete I would sum up here.

[1]Anglo saxon, western

[2] I'm not going to go into the whole issue of women being "protected" from violence, its a large and complex subject full of holes.
MicroAcquire Raised $3.5m
> rouge states

States that wear lots of lipstick? It's a word often mis-spelt.
That might be the case for the internet, but in a company there can be real dedicated curation resources and a policy-driven schema and naming convention. I think the viability is different depending on the use case.

That said, I'm not sure universal exchange formats like OWL are really necessary for any use case. Maybe RDF is even overkill, but the concept of subject-predicate-object triples is powerful and opens up a nice space for using rules engines to explore amorphous and multi-dimensional graphs of data.

Also I think the line between data and metadata is pretty blurry and not so easy to separate. At what point is a property of an entity considered "meta"? I'd argue that if the thing it is on can be considered an entity at all, that collecting data about it is just part of the concrete definition.
Blue Origin's Jeff Bezos Launch on New Shepard: Live Updates
https://github.com/deepmind/alphafold