skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agree. FWIW, I think procedural macros make a huge difference for ergonomics. For example, a "similar" library in C++ (libcereal) is still a PITA to use and debug.
But how is that less biased? That will still be biased one way or another (eg. more college students than gun licensees, or whatever) so regardless of whether they allow all of them or none of them or an arbitrary subset of them, it will still be biased and I don't think there's any objective set of acceptable IDs that isn't biased.
There is, of course, no bias in the types of people who are comfortable with and can easily pass a background check, and those who are not or cannot.

In a free and fair election, the right to vote is not be based on your detailed personal history, or whether you have done something that looks off and might cause you trouble with authorities.

Even if it's just fear of imagined trouble that puts people off feeling safe to obtain the necessary approvals to vote, that's enough to prevent a free and fair election.
Make it so that government ID is federalized and free, with things like state drivers licenses endorsements on top of your provided ID. I don't even see a compelling reason for state-specific driver licensing. Make driver qualification federal like in every other country in the world.

Things become a whole lot simpler when stuff can just get tacked on to your ID, and appropriate institutions can check the status of such endorsements in a central database.

> In theory, this should make both sides happy.

One side will never be happy, because their entire strategy (according to leaked internal documents) is voter suppression.

A reminder: there is very, very little voter fraud in the US. Most of cases of fraud that have been discovered turned out to be members of that side that is so very concerned with voter fraud.
>when everybody starts using wasm

I would say this is a far off possibility. The need to write WASM code rarely surfaces for the average SPA, and really seems like its more applicable to games or sites with heavy processing needs.

For better or worse, it's going to be JS/TS for a long while yet.
I've had songs disappear/reappear and I don't notice until it comes up on a discover/radio and I realize it isn't marked as liked anymore.

I imagine it's due to licensing fuckery, but you'd think they'd keep track of the song in your favourites and reinstate it later.. infuriating. I got part way through writing a script to periodically check what has disappeared earlier this year, maybe I should go dust it off
10 year support is great for servers and "set it up once" type setups - but soon enough the libraries provided begin to be out of date, and you end up hacking things in.

It was a problem on CentOS before it died the death, anything remotely PHPish was always really unhappy.
Thats is what sales team is for. Talk to them, explain you usecase and set of features you are looking to use, they'll give you a discount based on that. If I remember correctly we managed to get a license for all users who ever need to login, but for the price of number of core active users.
Had a little too much of human religion? Me too.

I went through this same phase, at one point I declared myself an atheist, mostly because it was an easy way to give the middle finger to my Catholic childhood indoctrination.

But then I decided to dig a little deeper, and there is more to it than thinking "god" is the same as "the Easter bunny".

Good luck trying to figure out why something exists and not nothing (and we're not talking about quantum particles popping into existence in a vacuum, those are "things" ... that's not nothing).
WSJ's reporting is very good but their editorial board is maybe the most off-kilter in the entire industry; like 1/3rd of their op-eds are asking why the Supreme Court won't take up a case to allow employers to bring whips to the office.
We as a species may lack the mental faculties to truly understand the mechanisms by which life evolved the ability to analyze and reason about its surroundings and itself.

We lack the scientific tools to properly differentiate or falsify "consciousness" from any other sufficiently complex phenomenon. We can't tell whether it's an emergent phenomenon arising out of a particular arrangement of energy and matter, or whether it requires some input that we cannot currently observe/measure, or something else entirely. We don't know whether we can create consciousness from its constituent parts, or if it even has constituent parts. We don't know if there's a finite supply of it in the universe, we don't know if it's a dimensional thing, we don't know how it interacts with other forces.

We do know that it appears as though we have much more agency than a rock, yes, but it's a matter of degree how much more when we compare ourselves to other lifeforms, primates, dolphins, elephants, ravens... or other people. We don't know if certain members of our species are "more" or "less" conscious. We don't fully know what happens to consciousness during comas or brain death or dream states or sleep.

It's just an ambiguous term that we apply to the "state of human information processing that we can't really explain". Substitute "ambiguous" for "illusion" if you prefer, but it could also very well be an illusion the same way centrifugal force is a pseudo-force, i.e. the measurement of consciousness depends on some reference frame that we don't know how to use yet.

It's entirely possible that consciousness is NOT an illusion, that it is indeed a special "thing" in the universe, but we can't prove that with the science, language, philosophy, and possibly mental capacity that we currently have. Maybe one day we will. Maybe not. But it's premature to assume we understand anything about consciousness in the philosophical sense.
Right Click -> View Source is now a multistep hacking process according this man.
I’m a senior visual effects artist, compositor. My skills are more related with the 2d aspects of a movie, usually blending multiple 2d and 3d elements seamlessly (and hopefully) photorealistic way into the final image.

Is also said compositors are the last line of defense on movie productions (image only side). The mantra “we’ll fix it in post” means usually us fixing productions problems/incompetence/laziness/lack of money - and a ton of overtime.

I use Nuke on a daily basis and other softwares to assist related tasks.

For high-end productions, artists are very specialized - both 2D/3D artist usually spend 80% of their time in a single software: the most likely in these productions are Nuke and Maya, and for some artists, this can be Houdini, ZBrush or Photoshop. For the 3d tracking dept, 3D equalizer, Syntheyes or PFTrack.

I’ve started a long time ago, where most compositing softwares that I’ve used are dead: Shake, Combustion, 5D Cyborg and a bit of Toxik.

I recently joined a new studio as a pipeline developer/technical director. I’m very excited about the AÍ developments (in a non delusional way - only recent research is getting quality/control good enough for visual effects) and hope to bring these tools to more non-technical people.
Mint is arguably better at being what Ubuntu was originally intended to be. And is still based on Ubuntu, so all your mad apt-get skills still apply, the packages are readily available etc.
Who created God? Good question. I did some digging and found this article, that reasons using references from a Christian point of view:

https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/wp20140801/who-made-...

Is is clear in the Bible that God does not exist in physical form. In the heavens, according to the Bible, he does not even exist in the same form as angels. At one time, Jesus was described in his human form, as "a little lesser than angels". Just a little? I guess it doesn't make sense for Angels to be in God's same plane of existence, then.

I think that 'time' is a part of this universe and that God is an observer that exists outside of it all. This makes sense, because of his ability to accurately tell the future in specific detail. But in the Bible, we see that Angels are restricted and bound by time. God is not. Probably God created time. Therefore to ask 'Who made God?' in his plane of existence, would require us to understand what existence is like without time.

How do you feel about this?
That the problem is more complex than you’re making it out to be.
First, they're also the party that isn't looking to enact voter ID laws.

Second, he never said either party was the underdog.

He just outlined how voter ID laws can only be a first step to disenfranchise voters.
Here's my comment from a couple of days ago.

I'll add that as well as reaching Qtotal > 500, we need continuous operating life to be of the order of 10 million seconds, "only" 13 orders of magnitude away. Not going to happen in 2 years, or 5 years, or 40 years.

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The mininum viable Qplasma would be in the neighborhood of 100.[1] Fusion may get competitive for electricity generation with a Qtotal > 500.[2]

1. Sabine Hossenfelder, How Close Is Nuclear Fusion?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ4W1g-6JiY&t=8s

2. Nicholas Hawker, A simplified economic model for inertial fusion, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33040650/
This would be great to see with dithering and the checkbox indeterminate state. Should make it look a lot better. I think there was a post about temporally stable dithering for use in video games recently.
I found a similar kind of problem at a bank, though the vulnerability was so simple I stumbled on it by accident. I promptly switched banks but was never brave enough to report it for fear I might wind up in a very bad situation.
Pretty sure blender switched over to GPLv3 about 12 years or so ago.

Something, something linked libs something…
This raises the question of how we start planning now to build more appropriate institutions to avoid societal failure.
Obviously. But it's already taken into account in my carbon footprint (by multiple estimates including "imported" emissions).
Governor’s cousin need to eat, too.
> They're different compilers so I assume the answer would be yes.

They have highly similar designs (at least in the middle-end which is the important part), or did, but gcc's remaining large customers care most about optimizations so it's still somewhat ahead there.
Chromebooks really?
Gmail is probably not ideal. Last I tried I needed a phone number to create an account that actually worked.
I'd say so. It's within the wheelhouse for organized crime. It is also something a foreign adversary could pull off with some partisan local support.
to be absolutely clear i am not making excuses for anyone or anything. no matter who does it, trying to prevent your opponents from having access to voting is despicable. my point is to say that this isn't a party problem, a side problem or a group problem, it's a humans and power problem. people will just do stuff like this. the suggestion of the person i was responding to was that it's only a single group of people that are doing this specifically saying historically. my point is that it is a specific group right now, it was a different specific group in the past and it will be a different specfic group in the future and it's always bad.

i think we almost entirely agree with each other.
I really like the idea of the Framework laptop, but at the same time it is hard to imagine the time scales involved

My personal experience is that a thinkpad laptop lasts 6 years if you replace the keyboard and battery. I am sure that the same is true for other brands.

After 6 years, my old laptop started having other issues with the screen, and ssd. Everything about the laptop was out of date, low resolution screen, comparatively slow processor, bad webcam, not a lot of memory, keyboard started having issues. So it made sense to buy a new laptop.

I am having trouble imaging how things would be different with a Framework laptop. What is the imagined life span of this laptop?
What point are you getting at, here? The generalization in your comment isn’t true, for starters [1, 2], and it doesn’t address the premise of the parent comment that there may not be sufficient fraud to warrant stronger ID requirements. From what I can tell (correct me if I’m wrong), that assumption of insecure elections is what underlies the laughability of the situation.

[1] https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...

[2] https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jul/04/millions-in...
Maybe, I'm a minority on HN, but I want my OS to be as transparent as possible while I do my work. Each time I login, I don't want to be greeted with Audio doesn't work, or your email client broke because Outlook Server changed something. My hunch is low code or no code users are also similar, if someone uses Python for some data wrangling tasks, they don't want to deal with a full fledged Linux installation.

My developer tool chain generally involves writing backend services. I made a toy project using WSL and VSCode's remote extension and the experience was almost seamless. I was able to get Docker to work, installed GoLang, built my services, use the terminal to push code.
Your body wouldn't function without the loving cooperative cells, all parts, all working to make you, a perfect for this current space time human! <3 cooperation or love.

Same is true about society, we will rebuild and pivot into a stronger more distributed form, if we follow Truth, Love, And Freedom in our mandates.
Eg. by the power of the Boltzmann Brain argument.

In short, if Universe will exist forever (no matter its heat death, the Boltzmann Brain also works under those conditions), then all configurations of matter (locally) will appear over its "lifetime" infinitely many times.

Consequently, you with your subjective experience and memories could have been created a picosecond ago by "random" motions of matter, without the need for them (ie activities leading to memories) to occur, and without thoughts being previously processed.

As strange, as it sounds, the argument is actually solid, though hard to grasp in the first moment for those who haven't encountered it yet :).

PS: This also means that 'cogito ergo sum' is too strong of a statement. Just saying "something exists" (as in, "why there's something rather than nothing") seems sufficient.
How to get Excel financial model for SaaS startup in 5 min
(I think in this case it was Wired, not NYT)

Personally I blame Google for the proliferation of a lot of this stuff. It syncs extensions across browsers and automatically signs you in on Chrome when you log onto Gmail. Or did, anyway, it’s been a while since I used it. Either way, infuriating default behaviour.
I said could.
Why the fuck not, people have intimate relationships with human sized dolls
its good you are aware of their work and on board with the research

you should recognize that's 6 years old and everything that was going to change has already changed, the article of this very thread is about using the new changes

> - Permit individuals who pass an accredited investor examination to qualify as accredited investors.

Only a further expansion this last point is what is on the table. As taking several FINRA tests do now allow for qualification as accredited (as seen in OP's article), and people get to submit new non-FINRA tests, their approval has not occurred yet.
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Solid mathematical skills (Phd. thesis in Topological Graph Theory) and a good amount of experience developing academic/scientific software. Looking either for software development or data scientist roles. I'm fine with Junior positions.
But this is assuming that the server has more agency than it does.

No, it merely assumes the server is acting on authority of the organization identified by the domain name. It doesn't assume agency, only representation.
Similarly, a gov registration fee website simply disabled the “next” button at UI layer because I was late from the deadline. Easy bypass and paid fee, never heard anything else.
So, what should I do if you don't decide to include critical release of a package that was out there for 6 months? https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases
The “Decline and Fall” of Rome – A Dangerous Idea?
Netflix co-CEO defends Dave Chappelle special
> but devs can only work so fast, which creates a window of opportunity which damages both them and their users.

Sadly, time and time again, what in practice ends up happening is the window of opportunity is wasted by the devs being instructed to work on new features rather than fix critical security bugs the company thinks are not widely known.

Apple’s response to four zero days being only the most recent high profile example of that.
> Interpretation: Our findings suggest that COVID vaccination is not associated with improvement in PASC. Additional studies are needed to better understand the mechanisms underlying PASC and to develop effective treatments.

So they found no association.
It's not quite an error. The poster's other submissions are not surprising given the editorializing of this abstract.
.1% of the US population is 300,000+ people. That's not "insignificant" by any stretch and could easily sway an election given many of them come down to a handful of votes.
"Rock-solid components".
Who supported them? What did they support?

No one supported hmdne's claim everyone knows what protected classes are.

Jacob Herrington encouraged hmdne to make another PR mostly. Consider he recognized hmdne was trying to derail his PR. And he said he'd be in support of finding a better way to communicate the spirit of tolerance and mutual respect. Not removing that part.

Matz approved both PRs. But it isn't clear he read the discussion.
It's not a denial of the existence of subjective experience. It's a denial that it "means anything" or has any influence on events.
The article says: "For P.P.E., that means budget-conscious hospitals will look to buy cheaper, non-American-produced options. The U.S. companies will want continuing subsidies or protection from imports..."

The article doesn't go into why foreign alternatives are cheaper, despite the cost of shipping halfway around the world.

Of course it's cheaper if you pay your people $50 for an 80-hour workweek, dump all your toxic waste straight into the environment, and have a totalitarian political system where you can shoot anybody who complains.

Foreign firms operating in one of these countries will always be able to push domestic industries out of business, unless tariffs + shipping expenses are enough to negate the cost savings.

I live in the Rust Belt, and it continually amazes me how thoughtful, cosmopolitan people struggle to understand that "protectionism" isn't a dirty word.

It's also a little weird how the article seems to adopt a "have your cake and eat it too" attitude -- that there's some magic bullet that will allow us to swap out foreign sources for domestic ones without any tariffs or increased costs.

I suspect such a thing doesn't exist. Everyone wants to be prepared for overseas disruption, and everyone wants low prices in normal times. The whole point of this entire debate is (or at least ought to be) prioritization or trade-off: Is it okay to pay higher prices in normal times in exchange for being insulated from the next global disruption? If we want both, but can only have one, which one do we want more?
Oh there are so many things like this. Ages ago, I used this to find a whole listing of internal fax numbers for a government org I wanted to get someone's attention at and totally slow-spammed them using a fax API. Got a couple of reads based off that.

There's no way I'm telling them I did that, haha!

Rule 1: Never tell people they're making a mistake unless you trust them to trust you.
I just can't get over the idea that someone who (ostensibly) works as a professional writer or editor would have that plugin installed.

Although the irony is not lost on me - a millennial, wanting to make fun of overwrought millennial tropes, ends up committing one.
Universe solving for the maximum sum amount of joy?

Universe is setup such that many things will form, then ultimately be annihilated.

suffering is such that it can instantly end joy.
Joy has to do a lot of work to end suffering.

Entropy generally brings about suffering, joy requires a lot of energy to create situations that relieve / protect from suffering temporarily. So the universe seems more optimized for suffering. The universe itself is indifferent.
>Can you download Github and host a private Github instance?

Yes, that's what Github Enterprise Server is:

https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.2/admin/overv...
It’s GPLv2 or later, with some parts such as Cycles being permissively licensed. (Apache 2)
I'll take a dozen Fukushimas every year (deaths from radiation: 1; deaths from evacuation stress: 273) over the hundreds of thousands killed every year by air pollution from coal burning.
So they've increased the price for their "pro" stylus which you need to erase (now the same as the 2nd gen Apple Pencil), their screen sharing has a large border to accommodate their logo, and the only way to get your handwriting converted to text (one of the key features they've advertised since the days of RM1) is to pay for $8/mo plan.

I don't see any reason why a company or school would buy these over iPads (guessing they're banking on outlets not updating their already middling reviews and the "discount" obscuring these changes). I'll personally grab Sony's new e-ink tablet, but I'm still holding out hope for another company to jump into this space with a competitive product for general employees/consumers. Frankly, the quality of the RM2 isn't good enough to justify this kind of "premium" subscription service.
You understand that cameras don't use a slit, right? Do you understand the optics in a modern camera?

Further my 70mm lens has a smaller aperture than my 35mm f1.4 lens. Yet it has a much smaller depth of field for a given distance. Weird! Lens makers must not know your remarkable "slit lens" trick.

At this point I'm convinced you are either trolling, or have dug so far into the depths of wrongness that you're dedicated to sticking with it. So good luck with that. I'm out of this conversation.
Does this release allow ZFS-on-root via the server installer? (previous releases allowed ZFS-on-root, but only via the desktop installer)
> It requires no explanation, it must be. It's sort of like asking "why do we have something instead of nothing?".

You can substitute "universe" for "god" and still get the same level of meaning (or lack thereof). Why do we have a universe instead of no universe?

Sometimes the more accurate, if less precise, answer is simply "I don't know" rather than "therefore it must've always been and always will be".
Dereference syntax in C++ is very, very fixable.

C++ could easily adopt a postfix operator^ as a synonym for prefix op*, even at this late date. Then (*p)->m could be written p^->m, or p^^.m. (The last is clearly best.)

Rust, too, could do the same, for the same benefit. And C could, too, if there were any point.

The only people to complain would be IDE vendors.

If you were then allowed to declare a pointer argument like "char p^", or even "char^ p", you could begin to dispense with use of "*" as a unary operator. Declaring "char^ p, q" would mean both p and q are pointers, eliminating another source of beginners' confusion.
For Cycles, Vulkan is simply not an option. Metal compute is capable of everything OpenCL is, but is more modern / nicer / whatever, while Vulkan Compute is pretty crap and definitely can't be used as a replacement for OpenCL.

The only cross platform alternative that actually works is OpenCL, but Blender is moving away from OpenCL, mostly because literally every GPU vendor is doing so as well.
I agree, it's a general neutral answer that many already know.
That hasn't been true since the 1960's, in the case of Catholics. https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-catholic-churchs-own-compl...