skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
exhibit A: The Chicken Tax is a 25 percent tariff on light trucks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax#Diplomacy_failure_...
In January 1964, President Johnson attempted to convince United Auto Workers' president Walter Reuther not to initiate a strike just before the 1964 election and to support the president's civil-rights platform. Reuther, in turn, wanted Johnson to respond to Volkswagen's increased shipments to the United States.[15]
The Chicken Tax directly curtailed importation of German-built Volkswagen Type 2s in configurations that qualified them as light trucks.
One thing sort of related to language that I see (as an entire outside observer to the field) as being required is some sort of shared communication 'channel'. Biological life works with atoms to form proteins that seem to do much of the communication that eventually guides higher level functions. Computers and computational processes can work on bytes and bits and package those into messages or results but on their own I'm not sure what it means for one process to consume another processes bytes/bits/messages, whereas proteins have physical results that lead to responses. Not that biological life should necessarily be the goal, but its definitely been good at guiding us in a lot of different ways. It seems like some sort of shared medium (that can be dynamically combined/recombined as needed) is required to communicate between disparate processes is required to dynamically change/improve systems and I just don't have any idea what that really looks like.
Memory was segmented into 2 banks of 64k each. See here (http://www.applelogic.org/files/AIIETECHREF2.pdf) — page 80 / page 10 of the PDF.
The story doesn't say who's doing the surveillance but the LAPD's Intelligence departments have a long and storied/scandalous history.

https://crimereads.com/the-lapds-secret-history-of-citizen-s...
In hindsight looks like I misunderstood the reason behind this new derived key system [0]. Looks like it was more about not losing access than sharing.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2014/02/07/a-better-firefo...
it can be a great way to learn a language and to explore other programming paradigms.
Nonstandard UEFI implementations are pretty common. ‘If it boots Windows it’s ready to ship.’
Time to learn Zig!
I apologize to the author but I was simply stating my experience with the software. There are countless pieces of software I have used with barely a memory. But this one in particular just prompted a visceral reaction from my usage
Slightly off topic but I'm curious if there's any preservation of flash games? Especially in making them available for use offline?
> 1.28 trillion transistors

So, basically, 45 x RTX 3080?
You linked to the French version of this page instead of the English version. Since this page itself isn't translated yet, you don't notice on it, but if you click any of the links on it, you'll end up on pages that actually are French.
I've stuck with Apache given it is what I know, having used it for over 15 years. Despite its flaws, it does the job pretty well. I'm also more confident that Apache's code is more battle tested. On top of that I disable all the modules I don't need so my attack surface is pretty small. I run a static site so I basically run Apache with only a few of its core modules. I've tried others (especially Caddy) and while I appreciate some of the enhancements, they don't really add any significant improvements for my use cases.
You can definitely get some incredibly elegant and fast solutions using Rust. Check out timvisee's AoC 2020 [0]. It honestly had a significant impact on my personal style.

[0]: https://github.com/timvisee/advent-of-code-2020
> NFTs are considered ownership in nascent online societies.

iow: "small subcultures".

> There is no “at large” society.

Of course there is. Do you really think USD for example isn't accepted by society at large?
I have a crypto.com account and, if other exchanges are like them, I swear the goal is to make it difficult to take money out of the system. I have a less popular coin that I mined (<$2k worth) and the ability to transfer my coins to crypto.com so I can cash out for real money has been "coming soon" for over 6 months.

Of course it's super easy to buy and there are no barriers in terms of cost if you want to bring money into the system, but even transferring out of the exchange to another crypto wallet is ridiculous. I bought some ETH hoping to try out ENS. At the time it was .008 ETH to transfer my money to a different ETH wallet. Now that's $35.

How is crypto revolutionary again? Would you stay with a bank that charged you $25 to transfer your money to another bank? And the icing on the cake? I just went to the crypto.com fee list [1] and I can't even figure out how much it costs to transfer ETH to ETH now. They changed the way it works so it's not obvious.

I think it needs to happen on a different chain or something. Who knows. Can anyone explain how it works? Can anyone explain how crypto currency is supposed to change the world if they can't even transfer my money around, for a reasonable price, with an easy to understand system?

1. https://crypto.com/exchange/document/fees-limits
Try and attend.
integrate power consumption seems like an easy answer.
Maybe one day I'll need access from somewhere without my key.

Worth the risk? Probably not.
Some great advice here.

I would underline that in (a reasonably successful) life one progresses from doing to owning. Ownership can be of skills and knowledge, of a network of friends and acquaintances, or simply a place to live. The doing (and doing the doing well) contributes to the owning, such that eventually when you can't actually do much anymore, you are still valuable to society.

Of course this all falls apart when the world changes under our feet, and the things we own become worthless!
These functions are useless since there's no way to know if the function "fails." If the computer is on it returns 1, but if it's off it can also return 1. So if it returns a 1 you don't actually know if it's on (unless you happen to know from somewhere else that the computer is on which at that point why bother calling this function)
I know that at least Solaris implemented SIGPWR signal to inform programs of a power failure: https://community.bmc.com/s/article/Inquira-KA334556
In the days before computer access laws I know of someone who was charged with "Unlawful extraction of electricity" for using a computer in violation of his allowable access.
Why would is_computer_on_fire() return a double and not true/false? Even for a joke function, this seems like bad practice. If the function is named is_state(), I expect a boolean return.

> Returns the temperature of the motherboard if the computer is currently on fire. Smoldering doesn't count. If the computer isn't on fire, the function returns some other value.
The scoring should adjust based on your chosen language of choice and mental demise ;)

I look forward to it!
Also many of the involved are lunatics shouting "to the moon" as a mantra.
Chapter II, the Specious Present (1901)
He’s not talking about ssh keys, but ssh certs. As provided off the shelf by bless (Netflix), vault, step-ca, etc. they remove the burden of managing keys. For example you can give a single command a short-lived ssh cert that is only valid as long as the command takes to run and then expires.
100% tried to move to linux, but couldn't because there is software that only works on Windows, and just can't get around it - have to use it. I tried to dual boot, but it is just such a pain to do that, it's impossible.
I don't think AGI is likely, I think it is inevitable.
We can make specialized neural networks that can do specific tasks quite well. There's nothing stopping us from chaining those together. We have the pieces to make neural networks that can train on new data, thus creating new layers atop previous networks. We can even train those layers based on the data generated by the action of the network itself. The pieces seem to be present, the tooling around putting them together seems to be lacking for the time being.
I expect to see AGI in my lifetime, artificial super intelligence shortly thereafter and then the event horizon of the singularity.
It took me 5 days to go from San Diego to Miami. Could have done in 4 but first 2 days I stopped driving early (6 pm instead of 8-9 pm). Maybe even 3 if really pushed it.

I did it in Model 3 LR which is rated ~335 miles but I was driving fast (75-90 mph) and my car was loaded with boxes so I got ~220 miles between stops.

I did 3 or 4 stops a day, 30 min - 1hr per stop, which I used to eat and rest. About 2-3 hrs of driving between stops.

The car told me where and when to stop. I just typed the destination address and followed what Tesla navigation system told me.

One time it even warned me to slow down so that I don't run out of battery (I was driving 85 mph and slowed down to 75 mph).

First day I used autopilot but I didn't like how often it kicked me out thinking I'm not paying attention.

Rest of the time I used adaptive cruise control which was amazing. I could just focus on the steering (and there wasn't much of it on those straight highways).

In summary, driving for 5 days straight sucks no matter what car.

Tesla's built-in navigation and adaptive cruise control made the trip so much better.

Built-in spotify was also great (listened to some music and some podcasts).
It was only so long ago somebody asked "[Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29131931)". As somebody who didn't have Mathematica installed at the time, cheesing a problem with Wolfram Alpha was for sure one of the best applications I've had with it.

this year I guess I should probably have mathematica installed
Switzerland is #2 in per capita healthcare costs after the US. US is $11k per capita and Switzerland is $7k per capita.

Countries like Finland (4.2k) and New Zealand ($4.1k) show Switzerland could be doing way better.

Maybe the pot shouldn’t call the kettle black?

https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm
Reading by the ambient light emitted is constantly exchanging photons, which is information communication. Picking up a fallen coin is displacing localized complexity.

If it wasn't, you wouldn't be given any extra photons to bounce off the book and into your eyes, and wouldn't know of the candle across the street, since the photons were "insufficient" to make themselves known to you.

Again, pedantically deconstructing a technical analogy to dismiss it on its merits is going to be hard when faced with a more pedantic pissant.

The point of the entire exercise is to acknowledge the collective vs individual contributions to the emergent tragedy of the commons.
After reading this, I'm reminded of a conversation (or several) that I had earlier today with some homeopathic jeebus neighbors. When the subject turned to the pandemic, they told me they were ready, having already ordered some ivermectin online. I love them dearly, but I cannot stand by while they destroy themselves.

Standing by..
3x slower than this cycling record would bring you within the range for endurance running; 10x slower would be an ambitious (but far from record setting) hike of 90km.
I find it really annoying that the mac version of the IDEA shortcuts is totally different from others since I am using 3 platforms at the same time. In the end I settled with vscode set. And as a bonus I could use the same set for both idea/vscode :/
Another question would be "Should Apache support HTTP/3?". Personally I'm happy with the status quo and would need some convincing that it's worth turning on a new protocol.
It's literally irrelevant when everything we do to manipulate and track it works already. That's why I said the burden of proof is on the silly philosophical claim that it doesn't arise from matter.

Like when doctors see someone's blood ammonia levels go up and they're suddenly less aware of everything going on, less responsive, less able to talk about their thoughts and less coherent. Or patients with hypoglycemia losing their short term memory and eye sight and ability to make coherent sentences. And how we can do EEGs and directly see declines in electrical activity when this happens.

How could you possibly think that the consciousness is independent of matter at that point? It seems utterly ridiculous.
> Whenever I would get off a motorcycle after a long ride I quite literally have to unfold in stages until I can even walk normally again

Try an adventure bike, I can ride mine for over 10 hours and feel fine with just basic stretch breaks.
Or worked until we needed *
Like Sinn Fein and the IRA. Politically expedient “distance”.
The ICOs were mostly trash. That was obvious. But yes, Ethereum is still around that was ICO. Polkadot. Algorand. Lots of serious projects with interesting solutions.

You’re clearly out of the loop so. Just do more research.

There are still ICOs for instance there are auctions happening right now on Polkadot.
In response to your first point, I'd counter that Gen X through Gen Z are generally in favor of both decreasing defense spending and taxing the snot out of the ultra-wealthy - the only reason we haven't done it yet is because the silent generation has only just passed the baton to the baby boomers, who are now running the show.

Your second point is a very good one, and has given me something to think about. Appreciate the detailed response.
Exactly, so even if the server is compromised you're not giving it the means to authenticate as you. I think this is a huge plus.
Is... this not how your WoL works? Hitting the NIC is equivalent to pressing the on button, boots the OS, etc.

I've been using this for years to wake hosts at home when I'm abroad. It's invaluable.
oh man, should be interesting when militaries finally figure out those EMPs
The Network State in one sentence, one paragraph, and one page
I always objected that a smell is transported mass, whereas sound is waves.
But paying for electromagnetic waves with pressure waves seems fair.

(However, legal dispute resolution is about the effect on parties, not physical "reality".)
The USSR literally lined people up by the millions and shot them in the head in industrial fashion.

Not even close to comparable.
Writing a kernel module for shits and giggles is a great intellectual exercise, but... Linux's binfmt_misc was designed for use cases like this, and configurably allows to run binaries in exotic formats with a user-mode loader/interpreter for them.
“I remember the first half of the trip to have nice scenery. I don't remember the second half at all, as I zoned out and contemplated the mistake I had made as I kept pedaling.”

Time on earth kind of quote right there, my friend.
Maybe it’s a probability function. Something like “hey there’s a .7 percent chance your computer is engulfed in flames”
Ask HN: What do you plan to learn in the coming holiday season?
GP didn't say that they make breaking changes without documenting them, that would be horrific. The point is that they apparently make breaking changes, which is quite a nuisance. I'd rather avoid software that doesn't attempt backwards-compatibility between major releases. It can be done.
I'd say AoC is more about problem solving and less about Python. The puzzles tend to be pretty good and I usually learn something from them. You could have a look at the previous edition to see if AoC is something you'd enjoy [0]. What I found informative was looking up other people's solutions on reddit and GitHub.

There is also Rosalind for more data oriented challenges [1].

0. https://adventofcode.com/2020

1. http://rosalind.info/problems/locations/
Wonder if this is a throwback to the HCF command.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(computing...
It's clear that gpt models are more competent with knowledge work than a significant percentage of humans. This is implicitly threatening, to the extent that it seems people will refuse to even consider the possibility. Dall-e is a better artist than 99% of humans.

We thought we'd have time for the mental tasks as ai encroached on the menial, but it seems to be the reverse.

By every measure Turing himself considered, the Turing test has been passed. It's only the post-gpt-2 peanut gallery that have insisted on moving the goalposts straight into mysticism and magical thinking.

Machines will be better at everything humans can do, and accomplish things we cannot.

We are living in interesting times, different from anything that's come before - we exist in relation to systems that are learning to think like us.
Maybe someone can provide a bolt-on board that communicates to these new cars overwifi. The board would have tactile knobs for radio, wiper, AC controls, and maybe a cigarette adapter too. The mounting of it would be 4 screws that are screwed directly into the screen. Just vacuum any glass bits that fall to the floor after.
Let’s say you make $240k annually

If you assume that your employer is holding 1 week of salary on average, then they’re holding $4,600 for your money at any given time.

Let’s assume an annual interest rate of 3%, which aligns with the IRS rate on overpayments.

So your employer gives you an additional $138 per year because of your money that they’re holding in escrow.

But actually it would be less: they would only need to pay you interest on the amount of your cheque that hits your bank account. The IRS isn’t asking for interest on the amount they withhold for tax.

Why not just ask for a $300/year raise instead? You’ll get more money in the end.
DataCamp is on sale for 99 for the year
IIRC There's a bit of suspense in the original, when the decision maker orders the poor man to take out the amount demanded, and place the coins on the table, which makes the sound.
>if two communists can't find an agreement, then one of them is enemy

Ah, an early version of Aumann's agreement theorem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aumann%27s_agreement_theorem
I usually use AoC with some specific goals or limitation in mind to teach myself. The problems will not require OOP, but if you force yourself to solve each problem using OOP...

Last year I did typescript and tried to really focus in on the type system.
Execs seemed confused about the metaverse on Q3 earnings calls
You’re describing a good auto A/C. The bad kind controls the average air temperature but has no concept of radiation, resulting in the driver being way too hot when it’s a cold sunny day and the sun is coming from the front left. The thermostat thinks the average temperature is fine, runs the A/C blower on low, and fails t cool the driver.
I would love to see this for the atmosphere!
Life in the '80s in the Soviet Union space was marred by widespread food shortages. Here is a fairly accurate video of how the usual grocery shop looked like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8LtQhIQ2AE When the sporadic food supply truck would show up, people would line up for hours, many only to leave empty handed when the load would inevitably run out.

In 1989 Boris Yeltsin visited Texan grocery store and was positively shocked by the choice and availability. https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/When...

This is the very tangible result of suboptimal choices.

But I agree, life in the '90s, post collapse, was even worse. I read it as a warning that embarking on a suboptimal choice course may be hard to steer back until reality forces a very harsh collapse.
I highly recommend it to explore new programming styles in general. As some others, I use it as an excuse to learn a new language each year.

While I think python is a really great language for advent of code, I'm not sure I'd recommend going for an OOP-heavy style. Although that might just be a matter of personal taste - I think OOP is a poor strategy for most problems.
Python, sure, but not OOP. Most solutions will not be very large and there's really no need for OOP (ever) but particularly not for something like this.
Well, Biden is trying to improve relations with China and Kissinger is seen as a big friend of China, and he claims to have some influence with the top brass there (China made a big turn towards the west, and Kissingers meetings with Zhou Enlai played some role in it - Mao shaking hands with Nixon was a very big deal in 1971), so there is some alignment ; on the other hand you have a point, Democrats seem to have a very strong negative reaction towards Kissinger.
Not how I read the article at all. She is not claiming that what she did would work for anybody else or that people who doesn’t do what she did are somehow inferior. Maybe ask yourself why you read it that way? My guess is that it has more to do with how you feel about yourself than what the author is writing.
Exactly my point. If all you want to do is replicate the TR-1 with four transistors, that's easy, just like making a human mind by creating a baby is easy. But making AGI with silicon, while demanding functionality completely alien to a human brain, is like making a TR-1 that can save your playlists and pause/resume the audio while still only using four transistors.
Don't condemn "the system" saying they don't accept your less popular coin without saying which coin.

There's a host of reasons exchanges won't touch a specific coin, like Kraken & SHIBA INU.
When you convert float->hex->int->unix time, you get Sun Jul 27 2003 01:33:50 GMT+0000, which kind or corresponds to when the function might gave been implemented in Haiku. But if it matches BeOS R5, then the number may have another significance.
Maybe the the Pentagon should "quietly" put more troops in Ukraine, like they did in Taiwan. When is someone going to (openly) call bullshit on all this?
The privacy measures don't really make ads less effective though, do they? It just makes it harder for advertisers to get metrics back.. People will still see the ads and will still click on them but they lose out on the reporting of who clicked what.

I don't think this is a bad thing at all. I feel like political messaging has become so tuned by marketers to what we want to hear rather than what politicians actually are planning to do, that I think it's very good to block metrics as much as I can. Politics needs to become more real again.
AoC won't teach you anything about OOP.

The problems are designed to be solved in Python with less than 100 lines of code, by taking advantage of Python's extensive library of data structures and algorithms.
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I love our very knobby Korg SV-2.
Originally they sold the Hilux in the US but they realized that basically nobody who was buying one in the US needed that much truck right around the same time it became obvious they were gonna need to drop some serious coin on safety and emissions hence they just developed a new vehicle that was a better fit.
I did AoC in Nim one year and was very happy with it! I also became infatuated with Nim that year..