skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Didn't Norway just bought into the stock market via their pension fund? That is literally the opposite of investing it themselves."

A pension fund is payment to a group of people over a period of time. Traditional investment from a government into a country comes in the form of building infrastructure and military. Dollars spent on infrastructure and the military will not pay yearly cash dividends.

A factory can take it's payroll budget and "invest" it on machines, but it will not be able to pay it's employees, which defeats the purpose of a payroll budget.

Norway has a yearly budget and it invests in traditional things like infrastructure and their military. This is what the GP means when they say that governments can make good investments. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_budget_of_Norway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Similarweb
That confirms my decision to abandon reading the series after I hit a spot like that in Player.
In principle wouldn’t 3x3 be the theoretical limit? That’s 9 bits/char which is enough for twice ASCII.
While I disagree with disabling exceptions, modern C++ has all the goodies as Rust (minus pattern matching) for using return errors instead of exceptions.
Rumor has it that Polish ebook publishers do exactly that.

In Poland, there's no single E Ink reader company, so there's no DRM standard that would be compatible with all devices that you might want to read your books on. As a consequence, offering unprotected epub files is standard practice here, but all kinds of watermarks, from divs that are 1px by 1px, to subtle modifications of your book's cover, are pretty common.

You can beat this kind of watermark pretty easily by getting three copies of the book and comparing them with diff. You need 3, not 2, so that you know which variant is the original when you notice a difference.
I wonder how many cheap studio apartments they could build for $11B to house the homeless?

People need to probe their hearts instead of probing the universe.

Sorry if I spoiled your fun.
I realize I should have been more precise. I agree that there are many areas in which AI can and already has excelled humans and less often makes grave mistakes than humans. I specifically had natural language processing with a focus on "intelligent" conversation in mind. The issues in that area might have less to do with the pattern recognition ability and more with the lack of appropriate meta-cognition, introspection, and self-doubt. Maybe having several AIs internally berate which answer is best before uttering it would already do the trick, though.
Besides that, it is somewhat ad-hoc. Like, ok, libreoffice has a cli interface (with their own conventions, mind you), but what about inkscape? Or a browser? And I’m sure there are plenty of programs under windows that also doesn’t provide such an interface, but I still feel that it is something linux should copy.
There are capital controls, it would be illegal to sell in Euros to non-foreigners. There isn't anything stopping you from increasing the prices by indexing it to Euro though, you just have to announce it. Most consumer electronics markets use digital price tags for this reason. They update all prices in TL regularly (once a day etc.). Apple has this strange policy that it uses a fixed rate. They pick a high fx rate and stick with it until Lira depreciates to absurd amounts again.
Anyone know what they are referring to by "... and simplified pointer wrappers"?

I'd also be very interested to hear a Rust for Linux perspective on the current state of async Rust. I've been avoiding diving into it for years now, but I'm always looking to be convinced I should.
Would lead paints have a relatively unique RF refractive signature? Wondering if flying a drone with some wave guides could inventory buidlings with external lead paint, and then use the data for permitting to require additional environmental controls.
Wouldn't using a global CDN for everything be off the table to begin with, in that case?
I often watch YouTube tutorials for coding (recently flutter and rust tutorials) and other DIY projects stuff. Removing the dislikes has been horrible and a waste of time for me.
You guys are an outrage machine that parallels the worst of Reddit.

I can’t wait for you guys to defend spammers with “Gmail censors informative vendors who are trying to honestly sell Viagra and Cialis to suffering people”
I always thought the search was purposely bad and overly limited to prevent scraping for credentials.
When US gov expenditures are like $4 trillion yearly, $11 billion for an era-defining, cutting-edge space telescope built over 10-15 years does not seem much at all.
Yea, and everyone knows—which is how you were able to make this comment without even checking.

It’s not definitive proof. It’s still evidence in favor.
A good point - I'm taking it as given that reasoning of any depth is more of an iterative process, with one thought advancing as a meta-cognitively guided feedback to the next until a conclusion is reached. One prompt->completion cycle from a language model wouldn't necessarily meet that definition, but I bet it could be a component in a system that tries to do so.

I aspire one day to find the free weekends and adequate hubris to build a benchtop implementation of Julian Jayne's Bicameral Mind with 1+N GPT-3 or GPT-neo instances prompting each other iteratively to see where the train of semantics wanders. (as I'm sure others have already)
Rendezvous, attach booster, and deorbit, or just fly away?
With all of the arguments about government, elected officials have managed to divert attention from the two reforms that matter most: campaign finance and term limits.

Disastrous rulings like Citizens United, which further codified direct avenues to further government capture should still have people in the streets.

These two reforms would absolutely overhaul our system, greatly diminish corruption, and restore democracy. But, you rarely even hear them discussed.
It happens the same way. This is just talking about rates. When naive B cells see that existing antibodies are already present on the virus they take that as a signal that memory B cells already exist and the search for new antibodies is called off. So there's a balance between the quantity of virus, how quickly the virus replicates, quantity of antibodies, how well the antibodies bind to the virus, and how many bound antibodies are needed on a virus to suppress the naive B cell response. Basically, if binding becomes less efficient you'd expect the viral load to have to get higher before naive B cells get significantly involved. And in fact the infection may just be cleared without involving naive B cells, but just take a bit longer. It seems unlikely that would be worse than not being vaccinated, but I'm sure the devils are in the details of all these factors.
Richard Garriott's Hidden NYC Machine Shop
> I’m eager to use Deno more, there’s a lot that appeals to me more than Node.

Like what? I’m genuinely curious.
KDE.
The Bored Programmer's (Distributed) Ambilight
How so? You could already delete the whole conversation to avoid leaving traces, or individual messages if you want to create a misleading log. What specific tactics does the new method open up?
Sorry for offtopicness- xept could you please email hn@ycombinator.com? I want to send you some repost invites.
If you're interested in playing with Mu, there's a guided tour where I try to make the process as painless as possible: https://github.com/akkartik/mu/blob/main/tutorial/index.md
> your time is better spent understanding more of the kernel instead of learning another tool set

No matter your skill level, that won't stop you from committing memory-safety mistakes that may lurk for years until they suddenly result in a catastrophic failure. Evidence for that is abundant.
Why does this mean its a mess? Why should the codebase be optimized for adding new keywords, when that happens maybe once a decade? Your comment seems overly negative.
"Hey, it improved the financials since it moved from capex to opex. Also, I got my bonus and jumped ship before the excrement hit the cooling unit."

Yeah, several years ago, our corporate overlords sold off a database we created to a competitor and leased it back from them. Now, we're trying to recreate that database to avoid the financial overhead. I'm sure at the time it made sense to some bean counter but it was penny-wise, pound-foolish in the long term.

I think now it's impossible to think long term financially. Thanks, Wall Street.
In this context (I see you Lispers) the difficulty of adding a new keyword to the compiler is less a property of the language than a property of how the compiler's implemented.

Specifically, the weird stuff the author encountered like:

* Generating the token list by parsing the comments of a source file

* only parsing up to a hard-coded token instead of all of the known tokens (?!)

* using a hacky token hashing mechanism that only looks at the first two characters of the token

have nothing to do with Go-the-language.
A requirement for classes using the default memory allocator, there are other ways to design programs, and to allocate memory.
Yeah, I hardly understand Rust code, and I did not start learning programming yesterday.

If you want to practice, check out https://github.com/immunant/ioq3/blob/transpiled/quake3-rs/q... or whatever.
Regarding the video decode support in Firefox, I've got a working solution to that (a VA-API implementation backed by NVDEC). Just waiting for some Firefox patches to land to release it.

No sure it works on wayland though, not tested it there.
You make it look as if one should stay exactly on the Lagrangean point to appreciate its benefits.

The reality is that spacecrafts fly on very large orbits around these points: the Planck spacecraft followed a 400,000 km-wide orbit [1] around the Sun-Earth L₂ point, and this is the same for many other spacecrafts that have flown around that place.

400,000 km is ~30 times larger than the Earth's diameter. Unless somebody has nasty intentions like e.g. purposefully crashing their own spacecraft against some other, there is no reason to be worried. There is more space around these points than here on Earth.

[1] https://sci.esa.int/web/planck/-/34728-orbit-navigation
I don't think there's much ambiguity around a military's utility in forcefully enclosing the commons, or claiming extranational resources at gunpoint. I suspect people who are leery of a 'Space Force' have other reasons to feel that way. And I'd hope there are other ways of managing the sharing of things like Lagrange points than outright violence (though I suppose some body must have the capability to employ force or else any agreements made would be easily violated, yadda yadda).
> “You guys know that at least 250 of the people terminated were working an average of 2 hours a day while clocking in 8 hours+ a day in the payroll system?” he wrote.

When you're paying someone to come into an office for 8 hours a day, you're paying for 8 hours of availability for work. Most of the time office workers don't have 8 hours worth of work, sometimes you have 2, sometimes you have 6, and sometimes you do have 8 hours worth of work.

In a typical office setting, in the time a worker doesn't actively have work they just pretend to be busy or sit around. In a work-from-home setting a worker can take that time to grab a snack, watch a video, spend time with their family, or any other number of smaller things.

While the freedom probably has been abused by people, this expectation of a solid 8 hour work day is being shattered and is showing how much more time and freedom workers can have compared to what we have right now and these CEOs are trying to turn it into a way to justify paying workers less or punishing them making use of that freedom.
Just like FerretDB. Wait, that's not it.
Thank you, that's an awesome answer in so many ways.
If by successful you mean where changing one line of code takes 2 weeks of change request, 2 weeks of requirement analysis, 2 weeks of system specification translation, 2 weeks of test specification, 2 weeks of test case implementation, 1 day of implementation and finally 2 weeks of code review, and so on. Then yes, you are completely right.

In aerospace you probably want all this anyway, but for others, where 99.99% is enough, there needs to be a cheaper and more efficient way.
What that reminds me of is Rollerball (the James Caan original), and the water based computer in it.
he is talking about our DNA are evolution results of our ancients, and because they can estimate age and natural selection stress of genes, maybe it is possible to rebuild phenotype of ancient. For example, estimating egg size of octopus, web type of spiders... and so on.
You know, I think this is the right call. A lot of people have this instinct to screenshot and share things from private groups.

Making people jump through hoops means only the most egregious stuff would still be shared.
Do you have evidence they are not? Because in my (albeit small) circle there is not a single person I know that does not want to restrict money flowing to politicians and/or their campaigns from corporations (even indirectly through paid for advertisements and the like). Everyone wants to crack down on this, but legislators have no incentive to do so.
Bet on It: 37% of Desks Will Be Empty
Do not run closed consumer software ever.
It’s unenforceable if they don’t know about it.
Rajan the last ocean-swimming elephant: Jody MacDonald’s best photograph
For me, I switched over to Powershell Core, and as far as I'm concerned, it's way more productive for building situated software than the same gaggle of scripts that one gets with bash, in most cases.

param statements get you auto-complete, and docs. Powershell can just ingest and deal with JSON, and are one module away from doing the same with YAML.

Using % and ? (aliases for 'Foreach-Object' and 'Where-Object') ends up working very well for most data manipulations that one might be interested in.

It definitely has it's quirks as a language, but so does literally every shell in remotely common use.

And I'd say that Powershell is appropriate for non-trivial scripting use, as long as you familiarize yourself with the conventions for handing data to/from functions vs pipelines.

I've written more than one piece of above ad-hoc software in Powershell, though this is the only one I have in public: https://github.com/yumaikas/psi.
Since this is finally out, I am hopping they have all the other juicy details in supply chain, where Apple lifted suppliers to their standard and help them build out / counter balance competitors. ( Also interesting this is coming out from The Information, which tends to be an Apple shill for many years from Apple PR. But I am looking at BOE, YMTC and Luxshare. Should be the easiest find and leaks. If they do intend to go deep into it. )
From Siberia to US west, wildfires spewed record carbon emissions this year
You speak as if theres anotver reality than profit. There is none
i was actually really surprised that this did not exist when i went to search github for the first time. you would think that an open source giant would have this ability but i guess there is a ton of computational load to achieve search in
general. i’ll probably get downvoted for bringing up a whacky idea, but imagine having some type of referencing system that is done through multi node p2p, so searching certain systems using shared resources. i guess the major problem would be if devs would actually spare some of their personal computational resources to help the community find things and not rely on special interest groups. i get it, i am old school as well. i started out on pascal and BASIC. but still think using creative solutions is fun. but you know, napster was cool back in the day prior to their lawsuits. and p2p was starting to pick up speed
Fellow Rustacean here. Is the search engine secret sauce or something that could perhaps be open sourced? I'd like better tooling for searching private code bases. Also, would you consider writing about optimization techniques you used?
In some European countries there is a New Year tradition of melting lead and pouring it into water (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molybdomancy). The sale of these kits was only banned in 2018.
Could you please not post generic tangents like this? It's specifically against the site guidelines because it reliably leads to lower-quality, less on-topic, more generic discussion—all of which, unfortunately and predictably, we got below.

Worse, shallow-indignant comments like this tend to get upvoted to the top, where they accrue mass and sit astride the entire thread, crowding out the interesting comments. That's where I found this one when I marked it offtopic (which downweights it). Doing that had a big effect - now there is a diverse assortment of interesting, informative comments for people to read when they first see the thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
UK whistleblower details ‘chaotic’ and ‘dysfunctional’ Afghanistan evacuation
> This means that using it for the core parts may be feasible sooner rather than later, no?

More like much later. There are several performance-critical patterns used in the Linux kernel that are difficult to express in unsafe Rust and impossible to express in safe Rust.

See https://paulmck.livejournal.com/62436.html and especially https://paulmck.livejournal.com/64209.html

I think promoting the use of Rust for driver code is an excellent compromise.

As an aside, I'd like to see Linux go further and move many of these drivers to user space. Now that we have io_uring, old performance-based arguments for keeping certain drivers in ring 0 hold less weight.
Hosting encrypted zips en masse would also seem to be slightly shady? Sure, there are legitimate uses for that. But if it’s 90% of what your customers share on your platform, you might want to consider that it’s also legal not to host that type of file.
"Platform manipulation" includes things like leveraging one account to promote another. This person mentions having multiple accounts suspended. If this person was having one account promote or retweet another (not uncommon with gimmick accounts), Twitter might have just banned them all. I have multiple Twitter accounts myself, but I never interact with myself precisely because I don't want to violate this policy.

It also includes buying followers (either fake accounts or real accounts that have given API access to a shady bot).
it's wild to me, given all the delays and complexity and risk, that the mission length is only 5-10 years max. but even if it blows up on the launchpad we've learned a ton, if only about the difficulty of manufacturing such devices in the 21st century. i am praying it does work, though, and that we get 10 years of amazing data from it before eagerly deploying a replacement.
XFCE under Rocky Linux 8.

Multi-display setup.

I patched the source code so my side monitor retain its windows when I switch workspaces.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding but don't the fees scale (basically linearly) with the number of transactions? It seems like you are suggesting that this NFT based approach is superior at least in part because money can be invested/withdrawn more frequently/flexibly.
Cool videos thanks. Do you have any handy links to why it takes 30 days to unfold everything? I assume there are good reasons, but I just can't imagine what they are.
For instance, does it mean you can only run on an open source OS if you are providing it as a service, for instance? I guess not...?

Personally, as an open source user, I want to be able to pay whomever I want to host a product I'm using. The SPPL seems intended to prevent this. Like it's intended to prevent cloud providers from offering it as a serivce, if it didn't do so successfully under the exact terms, they'd change the terms to do so, because that's the goal. Whereas in fact as a user, I want the freedom to pay whomever I want to host it for me, if it can effectively only be self-hosted (whatever that means!) or hosted by officially licensed vendors, that's not what I'm looking for in open source, I don't want hosting-provider lock-in.

So, while we could legalistically look at the exact terms, I'd rather just have a license that is not designed to discourage/limit/prevent one of the things I want to do with the software, which is of course why we choose open source in the first place.
Correct, it's all just spacetime. This is what Einstein was after in the last years of his life - a unified geometric theory, where mass was not separate from the sheet, but rather, part of it - a deformation of it.

[1] https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/0706.0190v2

Water waves can crash into eachother. There's no reason that spacetime waves cannot either. You can get some hint of this if you look at the oscillations that comprise the Higgs field.

The negative curvature of gravitation should be cancelled out by the positive curvature of matter and energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-energy_universe
Any popular movement to address corruption would immediately be decreed a "dangerous conspiracy theory" and demonized by the mainstream media. Any politician would be excluded from mainstream debates. And even if they could get into office, they would be totally unable to do anything, because the rest of the system would be against them.

I know this sounds like more of "well it's the government, what did you expect?" But my point is that the American government is rotten to its core and it's going to take _a lot_ to undo it. In other countries there is sometimes violent revolution, but we consider that unspeakable here.
Sorry, what’s UBO?
This is exactly what has happened :). People close to the government made unbelievable profits at the expense of the people. If you're interested look up the story of the evoparated 128 billion USD of the Turkish Central Bank.

Our central bank sold 128 billion USD to friends of the son-in-law of Erdogan at a ridiculously low interest rate last year (1 usd = 6 Lira, now it is 14 Liras) with a confidential protocol. People have noticed it through the balance sheet of the Central Bank. Government officials refused the comment first, then they admitted that 128 billion USD were in fact sold. We still do not know to whom it was sold.
This is probably the fraud of the century.
You really only need to know the age of the building to know if it has lead paint, generally.
Does @jack use dummy accounts to boost the popularity of his tweets?
How does one even begin to engineer tests for such a sequence of events? Yeah you can test each step individually, but then you have all the integration effects. How do you know you have enough coverage?

$10B buys a lot of QA and I'm sure they try to engineer everything with the right margins, but it's still an unfathomable amount of state space.

Are there techniques to stay sane and manage risk without just throwing money at it? I feel like that kind of knowledge could be useful for software test development.
https://twitter.com/nancytracker - this insightful account was also just suspended.

The decentralized alternative can't come soon enough.
Nah, I play turn-based roguelikes.
You still have to use stackalloc to allocate on stack. With Span<T> you don’t have to use the unsafe keyword and you can pass the allocated array to other functions easily.
Google agreement saves Roku from heading the same way as Windows Phone
but window dressing because unenforceable unless the subcontractors contract assigned all work product to the payor - this rather neatly turns the responsibility for unlicensed software in production over to the manager, who should have at least passed that to legal for dd, failing which I am tempted to presume that the manager was not acting in good faith.
How many #bitcoin accounts out there boost anything he and Musk say about Bitcoin?
Figure 2 shows a pretty clear correlation between severity of respiratory illness and cognitive deficits. If it were really confounded or a random effect, you wouldn't see 100% correlation like this. I do agree their N could be higher for all groups, but that's really hard, and again the correlation is 100%.