skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where I live there are nested envelopes. The outside envelope is associated with you, but the inner envelope that has your vote is not. So they can see that you voted, but not how you voted.
25 Years Old Who Owns 5 Restaurants
Not at all: Nim always targeted system programming. Even before the new ARC/ORC, the GC was optional and done independently in each thread.
Spots, stripes and blotches: Color patterns of cat fur tracked to a key gene
I start reading the story. There is a link to a ringtone[1]. I click and I am taken somewhere else[2].

Sad but typical.

[1]: https://community.pagerduty.com/t/pagerduty-ringtones/157

[2]: https://community.pagerduty.com/forum/t/pd-integration-with-...
On the ML front (which is probably their primary motivation) it's pretty useful for the kind of things Spotify is interested. As a basic example, say you want to train a model to classify songs by genre. If you have say, a country song, adding a bit of reverb or compression to it will not change what genre it sounds like. So augmenting their training data with small transformations such as these can make their models more robust to these transformations. Obviously, this has to been judiciously, e.g, if you add tons of distortion and reverb to a country song it might sound like some experimental noise and not country. This kind of thing also can help with duplicate detection, song recommendations, playlist generation, autotagging, etc.

As for creators, maybe not a large fraction of music creators are coders, but there's certainly an intersection in that venn diagram, though I have no idea how large it is. And I imagine this could be used to create other tools that don't require coding.

Clearly, most of the time it makes more sense to apply FX interactively in your DAW of choice, but I find it useful to programmatically modify audio sometimes. For example, I've written quick scripts using sox and other tools to normalize/resample audio, as well as slice loops. I could see being able to add other fx such as compression or maybe even reverb programatically could be occasionally useful.
Right. It's about the autonomy. I do see a categorical difference between being the guy that gets asked to do something vs the guy whose job is to do the asking. Where does the former turn to? One has flexibility, the other has no where to turn.
"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin."

- John von Neumann
Yep -- and it goes deeper, even for CI. The CI/CD secrets vulnerability is just the most burning example.

Ex: Network segmentation for CI. We only expect CI to communicate with dockerhub, conda/pypi, and the CI service (ex: azure). Something similar for CD. That _should_ be settable via GHA, but isn't. In a world of weird npm/python scripts and github action marketplace... scary we can't. Self-hosted runners can in theory do this via custom network policies, but it's a PITA for something ~everyone should be doing out-of-the-box.

Edit: HN won't let me respond to the below. Imagine something like IP theft, wanting to mine our repo for everything labeled "security", dig into our version #'s for viable CVEs, or force-push some git commits (incl. history rewriting). Defense-in-depth says we shouldn't make that unnecessarily easy for anyone who plants a backdoor that runs during CI's `npm install` / `RUN xyz` phase. Network + RBAC are basically table stakes for almost everyone building enterprise software, so GHA doesn't have to reinvent the wheel here, just do it + make it friendly.
I used to be rather poor so the difference is more pronounced. I've enjoyed a high salary for some time now but I'm still reeling from the change.

Being Canadian, I have access to public health, but if I get sick with even minor things, it'll take up my whole day. Now, if I get sick, I'll just pay the ~$200 fee to see a private doctor for 15 minutes, get what I need and get out.

Dental is not covered by public health, so there were at times I delayed treatment because I couldn't afford it.

I used to live in Vancouver where people will tell you they have good public transport but it's a lie. It's really only if you live along the skytrain corridors because the busses are always late and it's always raining. So if you don't have a car, you're wet, cold, late, and miserable. Now I just pay for Uber. Better yet, I just live downtown and I can walk wherever.

Going to the grocery store when I was poor was also difficult. Thinking about what I can afford means spending time comparing prices or even stores, and compromising on the meals I wanted to make. Now I just throw everything I want into the cart and I don't even look at the price tag.

Being poor sucks and there are countless more examples.
I don’t recall anyone predicting the demise of the BBC when I was growing up, and if they had they’d have had no evidence as there were no serious competitors at all back then. Now there are huge competitors everywhere and they’re actually higher-brow than the BBC in many cases which defeats their traditional defence against other media! The BBC looks very small and vulnerable.
But Zig makes this tradeoff intentionally. By design.
> We'd be bringing it into the public sphere where it can be regulated better at least, that's already an enormous improvement

In the US, political parties are in the public sphere and extensively regulated, unlike private entities that are not political parties but engage in political campaigning independent of formal parties and individual candidates.

Abolishing formal parties in the US would increase, not limit, the role of unaccountable entities driving political factionalism.
i love that zig doesn't have a special syntax for generics, it just allows anything to be resolved at compile-time -- including types. which gives you generics 'for free'.
> I got into computers when my dad brought a Commodore Vic-20 home in 1982. Learned BASIC by typing in programs from Compute magazine. Then in high school they taught us Turbo Pascal on the PC.

Are you me?!?! I bought a copy of QuickC after pascal got boring, msft's documentation that shipped in the box was excellent and I learned a ton from those books. QuickC's stdlib was really buggy though, felt like a hobby project compared to MSBasic.
I assume (and I don't want to assume too much) you are saying the reaction here is hypocritical?

If so, I don't agree.

The Linux kernel is not too different from an emergency service. Interfering with its operation/development is dangerous to a large number of people on the planet, maybe almost all of them.

A shitty journal article that got accepted to peer review in an academic journal is not really affecting most people's day-to-day life, just academics and philosophers, and we (the collective we, maybe HN) don't really care as much about that as we do the Linux kernel, or at least care proportionately to the importance of the target of that human experimentation.
> Based on 2 trips to America,

I assume you're British.

Difference is, descendants of slaves have a voice in America. But those of colonized Africans by the British? They got independence, then puppet government and borders drawn to make sure to divide ethnicities and keep them infighting. And of course, no hope of ever making it in the UK (after all, it's not "their" country).
>I wish all programmers with a healthy bank account and vested stock quit their FAANG jobs and did research

A lot of the most interesting research stuff is happening in FAANGs though where there are more resources and direction for research. I'd love to be able to do something useful outside of it, but I don't think there's more opportunities to do impactful research in academia or on your own than in a FAANG
MSM is sh*t and it's dying, what else is new?

And how exactly is this a bad thing?
>inb4 it allows misinformation [...]

That has always been the case, and the generations that grew up under the 'protective umbrella' and the golden age of news corporations are the most despised ones(not to mention it promotes the "lack of filter").It's not a new thing, and that's why people are excited when a new medium arises: because usually the old dogs are not there at first.[to regurgitate their rhetorics, if i might add]
> happy to sit at home

Believe it or not, even 50s housewives did not sit idly, staring at the clock.
i actually do not know why that would be an unpopular opinion
So far clicking through a dozen or so from the top I've seen a mix of (a) review articles/lit searches outlining past research on ivermectin or other repurpose-able drugs as antivirals (b) in vitro studies (c) articles about the theoretical ways ivermectin could work [mostly about binding sites, with one long one going over the entire virus life-cycle] and (d) two or three like you saw that don't even mention ivermectin.

Looks like a galloping Gish to me.

(Oh hey, it looks like #48 is the same as #8.)
Machine Learning Algorithm Revolutionizes How Scientists Study Behavior
Parts for the whirlpool are easy to find if you use the model number on the door. Replacing the upper arm is a 20 minute job, and lots of the part sites have instructional videos now. I'm 21 years into a crappy GE.
I assume the person posting that is already there by the sounds of it.
>So I just went and read through my dishwasher's manual.

I had gone through life either using dishwashers that came with my apartment/house, or installing used dishwashers, because I was otherwise punching above my weight.

My current home is the first place I've owned where I've bought all new appliances - which all came with manuals, which all have really good instructions for using the devices the way the product engineers intended them, and I can't believe it took me so long to come around to rtfm for day-to-day stuff. I'd basically leaned on techniques I learned as a kid in the 80s, for decades, even as technology changed. I know not to do this at work, but it was funny realizing what an oversight I'd made in my home life.
Yeah, sounds like the kind of thing Landr and Izotope are offering these days.
Nim targets all the architectures that GCC targets, including less common microcontrollers.
Seems to me that Web3 is focused on Etherium, which is definitely a specific kind of 'P2P' if you want to use that term.

That 'broad generalized use-case' you articulated isn't really a 'use case'. It's not really a problem that needs solving.

And of course a browser plugin solves can get around those problems.

The issue is that this entire stack of technology doesn't do anything that people really need or want. Etherium is popular among Etherium enthusiasts and a few speculators for interests sake, not for for the sake of any actual 'use cases'.
All these "illegal" guns started their life as brand-new perfectly legal firearms. It's a very leaky pipeline, one in which the industry and industry funded lobby groups have at least a bit of a mixed incentive to solve. The vast majority of the proposed gun-control laws focus on tightening up the leakiest parts of the supply chain, or on reducing the overall demand for various firearms.
Imaginary Numbers Protect AI from Real Threats
Lots of places (theaters, grocery stores) have destination chargers (some are even free). If you go to those once or twice a week, top up there. If you don't drive much, a weekly supercharger visit is fine. Keep in mind that charging is currently worst case. It will improve by ~50% each year.

Battery degradation is not something you should be worried about. It will remain above 85-90% for hundreds of thousands of miles.

Don't forget about depreciation. Gas cars will be worth nothing soon as millions become undesirable. Electric will be so in demand that they'll barely depreciate. Used Model 3s right now are selling for thousands more than a new one.
Nissan wasn't "winning" like Toyota was.

While Toyota was raking in wheelbarrows of easy cash from moneyed buyers Nissan was selling Altimas for bottom dollar to people who were rolling in negative equity from a Dodge Journey.

This is standard BigCo stuff. You get a lead and you lose that lead because you don't jump hard enough onto the next big thing because you don't want to divert resources over the thing you're currently winning with. IBM, Boeing, Ford, Microsoft, they've all been down this road.

Nissan never had that lead so they had nothing to stop them from going into EVs deep enough to grab a good share of the market.
> But as a society, we could value reparability

That is irrelevant to the discussion at hand. Yes, free repairability would be fun, but as everything comes with a cost, values are encoded as trade offs between desirable outcomes, rather than the desirable outcomes themselves. When some desirable outcome is not obtained in society, almost always the reason is that there are other tradeoffs being made. So society values affordability, competition, performance, longevity, quality, repairability, customizability -- and that's just on the product side. Then these product trade offs compete against things like labor market protections, use of resources for competing products, etc.

When Apple decides to solder RAM into the motherboard, it is making a trade off between performance and repairability. When Tesla chooses megacasting that might result in a fender bender totaling your car, they are choosing reliability and lower production costs over repairability. Just bemoaning that some product is less repairable and that society values repairability so therefore some dark force must be working to subvert society's values is not a useful or insightful analytical approach. Everything boils down to tradeoffs.
I bought a lantern which emits a much redder frequency of light and started turning off my lights at night. I am indeed much happier.
If someone wanted to package clang to do that, they could. They do, in fact, that's how clang cross compilation packages work.

But sure, to Zig's credit, they ship all the supported toolchains and so don't have many different cross compilation variants in the OS's package manager. But that's a bit like buying one of everything, even though you'll only use one or two.
Well making a vaccine which doesn't reduce your infectiousness, and doesn't reduce your ability to contract the virus mandatory is asinine.

Literally the only thing the vaccine does is boost your own immune system's response to COVID. It doesn't protect others in any way shape or form. So making it mandatory is a terrible idea in general.
If you go on using a pre-set list of servers, you also would be able to do reverse HTTP proxies.

Using a pre-set list of servers with many sites is not easy, because they'd use CDNs and such.

So basically you can only use it for your 'own' websites and then you can control crypto on server side.
Researchers watch Washington’s snowpack melt, exposing glaciers’ retreat
> But what if that's not true?

Well I think that is true.

I think what you're saying, and especially what the author of the article of the article is saying, tries to attack Descartes by changing the topic, a sort of strawman argument. What Descartes investigates is knowledge and the scientific method in search of demonstrable truths using "methodic doubt".

What can I be sure of? Well, I can doubt everything and everything my senses tell me. But the fact that I doubt and think means that one thing is sure: I exist as a thinking entity. All what you're saying about language, interactions with others, societies, is not relevant to Descartes' point.

In its conclusion the article says:

> There is a Zulu phrase, ‘Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu’, which means ‘A person is a person through other persons.’

Yes, I agree. But that has nothing to do with Descartes, so I'm puzzled as to why that would translate in a title claiming that "Descartes was wrong".
What part of this is not fractional reserve banking?
No type checker can catch all buggy programs (that involve solving the halting problem). In practice, Rust strikes a good balance: in over 120,000 LoC of Rust code that I have helped write and maintain, we have maybe 10 lines of unsafe, with performance matching or exceeding that of the C/C++ counterparts.
I prefer D, it can be fully compatible with C, the syntax is easy to learn if you've used any of the C family you already know 80%, the package system is simple, modules mean no more headers or include statements just import things where and when you need them, supports every style of programming, QOL improvements like ranges and foreach, proper strings, optional garbage collector, has a long history of continuous improvement and support. To me it's the clear choice if I'm going to rewrite an old C project since I can mostly just copy paste the old code and it runs, after which I can clean it up and simplify it using the new features mentioned. Oh! and integrated unit tests and documentation generation are superb. Helpful error messages too. I could go on but I'd prefer everyone just try it out and see for themselves.

https://dlang.org/
This site has been the target of disinformation campaigns by far right groups for a while now. Don't give too much credence in what you read in the comments.
>and to a large extend, Germany supported Lenin getting back into Russia in the hopes that he would instigate a revolution there that would take Russia out of the war

That German Empire fell after WWI, and was replaced by the Weimar Republic which itself did little against the Reds itself but a large assortment of now unemployed German soldiers did join the fight.

The Allied Powers on the other hand, formally supported the White's and launched invasions into Russia. No matter how active they actually were in the war, the hostility would have prevented any Soviet interference in Ireland.
> Vastly larger DAC facilities are on the horizon. Carbon Engineering Ltd., a Canadian firm, is planning two plants that could each capture up to 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually. A 100-acre facility is expected to break ground in the Permian Basin next year. The other, slated for construction in Scotland, could begin operations in 2026.

> By comparison, it would take over 1.2 million acres of U.S. forestland to sequester an equivalent amount of carbon over the same time period, EPA data shows.

Assuming these numbers are actually realistic, and you have an abundance of available carbon neutral energy (whether that's solar, wind, thermal, small-scale nuclear, etc.), it doesn't seem too far fetched (on a cursory glance) to hit gigaton scale carbon removal. 100 acres per megaton/yr of carbon dioxide would mean 400 sq. km of plant per gigaton of removal capacity.
Randi also spoke about the ideomotor effect, which is the basis of how these things "work". The short version is that if someone believes a force is present, there is a tendency to subconsciously generate a corresponding body movement. To the extent that any actual information is involved, the user is feeding information to the device, not the other way around. See also: Ouija boards, facilitated communication, no-touch martial arts, etc..
Substack Moves on Hollywood with Top Marvel, DC Writers Targeted
That's called "leading the witness".
As well as the assumption that the kind of weaponry available to the population is effective against that available to the "tyrants".
Windows XP deserves to be on a nice comfortable LAN with other technology with which it can speak outdated crypto. :-)
So can debugging tools for C and C++ since late 1990's, zero progress there.
You need to provide low-level build functions, which is quite some work.
On top of that you need to understand the build system of the libcs to replicate it.
On top of that for libcs you want to deduplicate all symbols to reduce as much space as possible.
On top of that you might want to provide glibc symbol versioning.

People without incentive usually do not do this tedious kind of work, since "it works for me".
No one said anything about what's a "surprise" in a ~space~.
It also differs within airports. I flew in LAX a week ago and one of the non-precheck lines only took off shoes, but left liquids and laptops in bags and did a generic metal detector. They didn't even randomly assign people to lines, it was apparently early enough for me to choose to use that line since it was obviously moving faster.
I forget if it was Tanenbaum’s OS book or Spivak’s calculus book, but they made a point to switch up the pronouns often which was pretty fun to read.

The singular they is probably preferable, but can start to feel ‘clinical’ if it’s the only pronoun you ever see for an entire textbook.
Agreed, and Zig also has a lib for that as well:

https://github.com/jecolon/ziglyph/
> Early in the 2016-17 academic year, a former student complained about me and the university initiated a Title IX investigation. (Title IX investigations are a part of federal law designed to protect “people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance.”) My accuser, a white male, made a slew of baseless accusations against me, which university confidentiality rules unfortunately prohibit me from discussing further. What I can share is that students of mine who were interviewed during the process told me the Title IX investigator asked them if they knew anything about me beating my wife and children. This horrifying accusation soon became a widespread rumor.

> With Title IX investigations there is no due process, so I didn’t have access to the particular accusations, the ability to confront my accuser, and I had no opportunity to defend myself. Finally, the results of the investigation were revealed in December 2017. Here are the last two sentences of the report: “Global Diversity & Inclusion finds there is insufficient evidence that Boghossian violated PSU’s Prohibited Discrimination & Harassment policy. GDI recommends Boghossian receive coaching.”

> Not only was there no apology for the false accusations, but the investigator also told me that in the future I was not allowed to render my opinion about “protected classes” or teach in such a way that my opinion about protected classes could be known — a bizarre conclusion to absurd charges. Universities can enforce ideological conformity just through the threat of these investigations.

Didn't know there was a "Portland State University" in Cuba.
No, I was replying to the specific sentence I quoted.

I actually agree with the spirit of the post, it's just that one thing that bothered me.
It can, if the package manager bundles it that way. Instead, clang is usually packaged and distributed as cross-compilation variants; because most of the time users don't need all of the different possible targets, they just want one or two.
Yeah what I mean it's not the government to blame for Toyota ineptitude.
Yeah, as the other commenter mentioned—it's not a subset of the virus. They've already proven the vaccine doesn't stay local. That alone is concerning. Besides, I've already gotten COVID. Way before any vaccines were available. So I'll trust in my own natural immunity, and I should have the freedom to do that.
And this is exactly the kind of reasoning that leads smart people to distrust public health messages.
There are a massive amount of things between "society collapsing" and "nothing bad ever happens" where the number in your bank account matters greatly.

You have unexpected huge medical expenses. You are no longer able to work. You're fired and can't find a job. Tech salaries collapse. Your town in burned down/destroyed in a hurricane/etc.

etc etc etc
This is why I like GitLab much more. They implemented a proper CI.

I think what GitHub was going for is to create some kind of ecosystem for proprietary 3rd party applications and use that as a revenue. That approach only crippled the whole functionality.
I wonder if it's someone else. I'm a liberal progressive and found this story interesting and worth the read.