skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that at least part of it is APL's dependence on specialized hardware (at least back when I last encountered it in the 80s). At the Claremont Colleges, most computing access was on VAXes running VMS, although there was a single Unix machine at Harvey Mudd and Pomona College had an IBM minicomputer with 3270 terminals (plus a couple of the IBM graphic terminals) and it was Pomona's system that was the only one that had APL because the 3270s could use the specialized character set while Mudd (the science/engineering school) did not. The big language push at Mudd back then was towards APL, perhaps because a lot of aerospace companies sponsored clinic projects (all engineering students and some other majors did a sponsored real-world project in their senior year).

I remember writing some data analysis code in Fortran for my freshman physics lab and the TA was surprised to see my choice of language.
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That's the "secret" of PHP. It's 20 years later and it just works. Many other front-end development tools and frameworks have come and gone in that timeframe yet PHP persists. Why? Well, I'm not a PHP expert but it sounds like they care about backwards compatibility. You don't have to continually reimplement everything all the time, which both costs money and discourages further investment. There are reasons COBOL is still around 50+ years later.
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I love my golden mugs Made in Germany by Dibbern.
https://www.dibbern.de/de/solid-color-becher-gold-0-32l

There are 100% porcelai and sometimes I think that the coffee tastes better from these mugs.
That's what made the on-device policing effort so incomprehensible. Doing battle for privacy is their armor.
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Yep, for me it was those damn mouse drivers that took up so much of my ems memory.
hmm not sure I can follow the logic. Germany does have quite a lot of wind power doesn't it?
Also AFAIK prices in Germany went up because of higher demand for Gas.
And then somehow it is expected, as soon as there is a big enough crisis energy prices will go up exponentially.
And they said desktop signing was only for security, then blocked Epic's desktop apps for an iOS non-security business dispute.
I wish more people realized how anti-capitalist the current healthcare system is in the U.S.

If you want to encourage business, then remove barriers. Governments should be taking care of healthcare, not businesses.

Businesses should be focused on the core work they do: Running their business. Not on providing health care.

(Same goes, really, for childcare, transportation, and similar benefits that large employers sometimes offer, often because these things are not effectively provided by the government.)
Considering those same employers also get massive subsidies for every kind of self-inflicted damage, which results in massive C-suit cash-outs and buy-backs, this is the least the commons could hope for.
You must mean tomorrow, because today, we just keep the stuff around in intermediate facilities.
> That's because the "science" on firefighting has already been settled. They know exactly what will happen when you do X to a fire and they know how to stop it fast and efficiently.

That is not quite true. Where science is not available firefighters go by experience and best guesses. The same goes for cops and even doctors.

Not everything we do has good science behind it. Instead, science is coming pretty often much later, simply because actual science takes a lot of time.
This is what is likely to happen to Uber almost everywhere eventually. Courts will slowly re-impose the workers rights that Uber set out to avoid, the cost of an uber ride will go up, which will shift riders back to more traditional transport - busses, trains, bicycles and cars. Leaving a much smaller, much less powerful Uber. Without the scale and the price making power, Uber will see its value massively massively drop shrinking to the value of a large taxi company (albeit one that's throwing huge amounts of money away on extremely expensive silicon valley engineers)
Greek here, I nearly spit my coffee with this :).
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Creating an autonomous car in the first place is the expensive part, the marginal cost can’t be significantly higher than the cost of a regular car.
So this sounds like using mmWave kind of as a primary radar for sUAS? I wonder how well that will work in practice since mmWave gNBs are likely going to be installed to service terrestrial traffic. This might make more sense to me if Remote ID was using 5G, but as far as I’m aware they’re going to use Wi-Fi or Bluetooth for that (also a perplexing choice, IMO)
Prison should be painful for the jailers and expensive for society, so the only imprison people when it is really important, and to incentivize prevention.

BTW, it's weird that jail and synonym are roughly synonyms, but jailer and prisoner are opposites.
Well, the UEFI shell does.
When I was doing F#, I loved both of these projects. I don't think we should always view ExpressJS/Sinatra (from Ruby) as "the standard", but there's also something to not having to do an hour of work before we can get endpoints serving responses.
Why? I mean it's clearly Embrace. But Embrace and Extend are the goals of OSS. MS is a for profit company true. But OSS has never been anti-profit. The last E is problematic of course and MS has a history of going for Extinguish in the past. However I haven't seen any sign of that behavior in the current leadership and they've been doing their thing for a while now. You may not believe MS can change and you may not trust them. But that's a faith statement right now not a fact statement.
I'd say it's definitely not representative of people writing code: what "code you run" on your website doesn't mean it was you who wrote that code.

There are other statistics around the web for language use.
This kind of feverish laziness and total disregard for intellectual rigor is, of course, precisely what allows the wackiest conspiracy theories to spread.
Sounds very cruel, another sign that we can't control our technological growth at all. I have a friend, a former FAANG veteran that has dedicated his life to destroying what he calls "techno-Satan", maybe he's on to something.

I have also noticed that programmers have a tendency to sometimes distrust the stuff they make. I for one will never install "smart" home devices, I'm happy with my classic light switch that won't spy my on/off status and send it to China, or my toaster that needs a monthly subscription.
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The articles title is misleading (more hysteria from the media). In Germany the price for a megawatt hour is 129 euro and in the UK it jumped to 330 euro.

So it seems that Energy Prices in the UK hit records. Not surprising since they put all their eggs in one basket. The rest of Europe seems fine.
I understand the temptation to root for New Microsoft, but we should all remember that large corporations are extremely powerful psychopaths. Anything they do that seems ethical is self-serving, not part of a moral code that they will follow even when it hurts them.
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This is an interesting choice of article of the many on this matter.

The title is wrong (it’s state government, not federal. You wouldn’t post “US government” when Florida enacts something).

The intent of this program is as a trial to see if this improves things or not.

I suspect a lot of the readers here are lacking any real knowledge of Australia’s treatment of COVID-19 beyond the odd random news article and are looking through their own localised lenses. Before criticising, it may be worth taking some time to research and understand.

Our death toll in total in 18 months is about the same as the current daily death toll in the US. We have achieved this via means that simply would not work in the US due to dissension between states and differing views on the practically of temporarily giving up freedoms for the greater good.
Setting age appropriate design doesn't change the root problem: companies can do whatever they want with your data with 0 consequences. We need some sort of way to "own" our data, to be able to allow companies to "lease" it when we use their services, and then be able to rescind access (e.g. it's removed their system and all 3rd parties that use it). Something like that.
You don't need anything extra for Bitcoin. The computers and devices that existed even before Bitcoin was sufficient enough to secure the network.

Profits incentivized miners to invest in specialized devices. If Bitcoin's price stood still, hash power would eventually find equilibrium, and no new resources would be invested. But if price keeps going up, of course people chase more coin.
Admittedly I'm being a bit trollish as I say this, but do you get the same feeling from proofs that Pythagorean Theorem is correct?

Proving things correct is much harder than finding counter-examples that they aren't correct. But the methods do work. Their based on sound formal logic. Proofs can have mistakes, certainly, but it's a darn strong signal that their system is correct.
WordPress sucks ass. It's a cancer and it's growing.

But you can use modern PHP in your own theme or plugin if you want.
> To add injury to insult they made OneDrive the default way to save files in Microsoft Office, but sometimes a problem with OneDrive would mean YOU COULDN'T SAVE YOUR WORK AT ALL.

It's worse than that. The change to default OneDrive breaks auto-save everywhere that isn't OneDrive. On the Mac, this includes breaking auto-save on pre-Azure Sharepoint instances and network shares, but some of that works sometimes on Windows. So Office is a worse product even if you never use OneDrive.
> More granular control is nice and all, but I don't buy for a second that it couldn't be behind some "advanced" button.

In fact, they could've just kept it the same as Windows 10 because this exact system was under "Choose defaults by app", along with a "Choose defaults by protocol" option, at the bottom of the defaults apps pane.

Windows 11 is a step back from more granular control considering there is no longer the option to change defaults by protocol. Instead, you need to go through multiple apps to see which protocols each app supports rather than going straight to the protocol/file type you want to change the default for.
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Much as I support transition to green energy as fast as possible, doing so in ways that increase prices create a risk that businesses which care more about money than environment just move to where the energy is cheaper and then you lose both influence over them and employment for those very same marginal income people.

I’d rather governments use general taxation to subsidise deployment of PV (or research into superconductors and storage) than encourage higher prices — the rewards form research can bring benefits that make the cost worthwhile.
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The only thing that changed was that other companies started doing the same evil stuff Microsoft was doing when they got in trouble, except instead of regulators going after those other companies too, they've... idk, disappeared?

So in a weird way, I agree that it's unfair that Microsoft can't do unfair things while all the other companies are doing unfair things. That puts them at a competitive disadvantage!

They've been shy about it because of their history, but I predict Microsoft will eventually lock Windows down in the same way Apple and Google lock down their operating systems. Or, knowing Microsoft, they'll probably take it as far as they possibly can.
> replace all their drivers with autonomous cars.

And now, they have been given a huge incentive to do just that.

Way to foster innovation Dutch govt. !
"The question about human overpopulation is not whether there can be overpopulation, but whether the often popular claim that the earth can not sustain the current or the projected future human population is true"

So only human overpopulation is impossible, you're saying. I think you're wrong on that. We're special relative to other species -- but not that special, and not immune to it.

"In the grand scheme of things, we - humanity - know mostly how to create a sustainable technological system that can support 10B population. Whether our politics will allow us to get to such a system is a entirely different problem, and THAT might be our undoing, but I'd argue that's not really an overpopulation problem."

Is the goal to pack as many humans onto this planet as is possible?? That certainly isn't my goal, at all. With our technology, we don't need vast numbers with which to build pyramids or plant fields.
Who is that "we"? Cause I have seen that both accounted in models and in regulations.
Yes, remember this?

> Apple has released a silent update for Mac users removing a vulnerable component in Zoom

Removed not by antivirus you can disable, removed by an OS update.
I wonder how climate change will play with wind energy in the longer term. We might kill stable/recurring winds and end up with a bunch of windmills in the middle of a no wind zone.
You are quite correct that people are making moral judgments too broadly. There's a lot of unknowns during a rapidly-moving pandemic. It's understandable... If our moral systems aren't related to avoidance of death and needless suffering, what are they even for? But I think people should remember that there are a lot of things that we won't know until the pandemic is under control. Humility should be the order of the day, all the way around.
Yeah, the boxes are bit brighter by default in Safari, so that's the browser I tend to use for screenshots and video.
Robot Chicken thought the same ;) [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7Uc84U04Sk
Still better than the serfs of olden days though, no?
Unfortunately at a global level it's not possible or practical for every country to have total and complete shut down. I'm thinking of the majority of the world's population who live in developing countries.

Thus as a strategy it's not really a sustainable one at all, but can work at a small level for a short time.
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Pretty optimistic it would. As a matter of fact, I find it hard to believe they're doing it by hand.
It depends on what you want to do. If you are doing io-bound work, Tokio would be what you want -- you would use it as a runtime for the async capabilities in Rust. If you have cpu-bound work, then rayon is what you want to use. Rayon is a work-stealing parallelism crate -- it will schedule work to be done, and different threads will schedule portions of it as they become available to do work. It's very easy to get 100% CPU utilization across all cores use Rayon if your work is naturally paralellizable, and the interface is dead simple: anywhere you do a .iter(), you can turn it into a .par_iter(), and Rayon will parallelize the work.

Note there is some overhead to using Rayon -- you normally will be better off doing your work on a single thread unless you have a large number of elements in your collection... I found for my application I needed more than 1e6 elements before I saw an appreciable performance benefit to using Rayon.

As others said, Crossbeam is for sending and receiving messages across threads. I use it alongside of tokio and rayon.
This has been my experience with Wayland/Pipewire - Things just work.

I've been blown away by how good things like touchpad/gesture/multi-monitor support are in Wayland as well.

I tried really, really hard to run linux on a laptop in 2010, and eventually just settled on virtualizing it for acceptable device compatibility.

In 2020, my linux laptop genuinely feels much better than the macbook my office issued me. Like - actually better. Not "Better because I control it and it's free/opensource", just "Better".
If HBOT is potentially beneficial, the proper response to a study is to tell people to raise it to their doctor to see if it makes sense for them.
Loss of smell in COVID-19 isn't caused by frontal brain injury.

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/how-covid-19-causes-loss-smell

The risk to younger children is minimal.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02423-8
> Or nuclear. Sad that this isn’t seen as an option any longer.

Maybe this statement is just a reflection of what can be done in a reasonable amount of time (a few years)? Planning and building nuclear plants takes an order of magnitude longer, it seems.
Maybe, maybe not. At least back then, the threat of violent revolution was real and actualized. I don't think any group of revolters could defeat any of the modern western armies.
Why can't kids just m*sturbate to hentai and watch people die on ogrish between bouts of diablo 2 like the good old days?
Of course there can be flaws. WPA2 was famously proven correct, but that didn't stop KRACK.

This still dramatically raises the bar. EVM has a variety of very fun footguns and formal verification can help you dodge lots of these.
Oh man, you just gave me a sense memory of the smell of the Waterloo documentation in the UIC computer lab.
Things start getting a little verbose with everything on 1 line thrown inside a function.

app.MapGet("/todos/{id:int}", [Authorize("AdminsOnly")] (int id) => "This endpoint is for admins only");

Attributes make things cleaner with everything having its own line. Also you lose the ability to group a bunch of methods in 1 controller together under the same authentication policy.
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Against the rain is not sufficient - it has to be sealed against atmospheric moisture at higher concentrations. 10% ethanol isn’t terrible at this - but the discussion was running on ethanol vs gas right?

If running ‘pure’ ethanol, it’s still really hard to not have engines die or fuel handling not contaminate it. It’s not an easy thing to keep pure enough, and is even a bit corrosive compared to gasoline.
First off... It's a system rescue tool... Have there been any massive advancements in the state of the art of system rescue in the past 8 months that need to be integrated into this tool?

Secondly, since this is void mklive based, whenever you run it, you get the current state of packages. This means that the actual programs are never really going to be out of date at time of building. The project would only need to be updated to update the few boot utilities which are included in the iso, or to update the LTS kernel included.
But then, do most adults belong on the Internet?
Germany always had bad prices, it's been twice the French's price for as long as I can remember

https://strom-report.de/electricity-prices-europe/
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> it's the high cost of building new nuclear plants

https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html

If markets valued the low-CO2 nature of nuclear, they’d be doing better
There are physical processes that can change lead into gold. The real deal gold.

Also, there is no reason to believe anything about consciousness.

For example, you are not conscious and in my opinion equivalent to a machine. Prove me wrong.
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As others have pointed out, that site generates a risk that isn't what most people think of as the risk of death, that is it gives the risk of catching and then dying of Covid during a 90 day period when Delta wasn't around.

For a more expected assessment of "risk of dying if I have covid", you can use this:

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/covid-pandemic-mort...

Although it only shows "<0.1%" for anyone under 40s, so it doesn't break things down that fine (better for hospitalizations).
It was API, not API key.

Kernel is GPL, so only GPL modules can touch its internal APIs. For non-derived works, there is a subset of APIs, that are declared to be fine if used by non-GPL code. ZFS had a problem, where they were using something that should not be used (fp in kernel), which got removed and they had to find a replacement, which was GPL-only.

It is also necessary to say, that this is honor-based. Any module declares its license and the linker either allows or not allows resolving a symbol. There are no checks whether the module is really GPL or not, it is to show intent, and if you want to cheat, you must do it willfully, not by accident.
Unhindered access to the Internet for children means unlimited access by advertisers, politicians and advocacy groups to push literally whatever they want into the child's head, regardless of what that might be. For example, should it be possible for an organization like Prostasia ( https://4w.pub/prostasia-normalize-pedophilia/ ) to have unmonitored and unlimited conversations with a child through its media campaigns?

The Internet as some amoral ocean of voluntarily accessed objective knowledge is such an unbelievably naive old meme by now that it is extremely disappointing to still see it crop up on HN. Humans have sorely limited attention bandwidth, and we live in a world where every bad actor (including even the Taliban https://old.reddit.com/r/MalangKhostay/ ) has learned how to game attention to push every manner of ideological garbage down our throats in tiny increments. As an adult it's almost impossible to avoid falling prey to influencing tactics on a daily basis, why would we expect children to be more adept at navigating a global and almost completely unregulated media machine?
> I understand that these public companies are required to act in the best interests of shareholders

This is not true. Public companies are only required to be honest with shareholders, no more or less. The shareholders are free to invest elsewhere if the don't like how a company is run, or to exercise whatever voting rights they bought with the shares.
I wish that philosophers had to take science classes. It is completely unimpressive to announce a theory for consciousness without having experimentally tested it, and Nautilus should not have run such a self-congratulatory article without experimental evidence.
Someone's been scammed here, most likely it is fake news for a pump and dump. The fact that mainstream news just spread it shows they have no understanding of cryptocurrencies.

Or... Walmart themselves have been scammed if the news is true. Someone convinced them LTC was actually a good choice...
Perhaps a better strategy for code reviews is "LGTM with nits".

1. Every change should go through code review

2. Changes should be small, to make them easier to review, less risky, and to promote continuous integration

3. Team should prioritize review latency

4. Reviewers should LGTM/approve if there are no major issues with the change, trusting the author to resolve any minor/nit comments

https://dev.chromium.org/developers/contributing-code/minimi...
Also MapGet seems to be changing the state of the WebApplication object... which doesn't seem to be very functional?
For as long as we make intelligent algorithms, people will continue moving the goalposts by changing the definitions of intelligence.

We have an algorithm that can learn to outperform humans at any deterministic game and learn the rules by simply watching it. We have algorithms that outperform humans at image recognition and OCR. We have algorithm that draw images according to descriptions. We have algorithms that decipher languages just by looking at a corpus of text.

But somehow, as soon as a computer can do it, it is not considered an intelligent task anymore. Kasparov or Champollion used to be considered very smart for what they did, but now apparently that's just considered dumb applied statistics.
The english language doesn't really maintain retrocompatibility though
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