skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone watches "Meet Kevin" youtube channel, you would know the bad publicity Apple gets with him attempting to stream on his relatively new Mac Pro system. Any effort to improve that capability would be in Apple's best interest. Streaming is not going away.
There's one I always assumed was Kickstarter for Startups

https://www.seedrs.com/
> "McCarthyism" is a derogatory term for overzealous political witch-hunts which cause irreparable harm to honest, innocent citizens.

Yes, that’s exactly my point.

> What you mean is counter-intelligence

No, I do mean McCarthyism. The pitfall that counter-intelligence easily falls into where they end up targeting innocent people rather than actual spies.

A spy spends every waking moment trying to not look like a spy. Gang Chen on the other hand spends every waking moment trying to figure out heat transfer and nothing about not looking like a spy, because he “has nothing to hide”. That alone is going to make him look more like a spy than a real spy.
Cybercriminals laundered $8.6B worth of cryptocurrency in 2021
This pisses me off. I don't need or want a specific APP for your website. I ALREADY HAVE an app that views websites. It's called damn web browser, and it's my choice of which one I use or install (currently). I don't want your shit designed, spyware filled app.
Text for anyone who can't access it:

>"@Pgh311 I hope someone is keeping an eye on the underside of the Forbes Avenue bridge over Frick Park? One of the big "X" beams is rusted through entirely (and, yes, I see the cables, so it's probably not a crisis)." -Dr. G Kochanski @gpk320

>"Service Request #307260 has been created. https://qalert.me/GRea13511a408a4282815637644fd5a13a" -Pittsburgh 311 Response Center @Pgh311
>2. I didn’t want family and friends to have to sign up to follow my trip.

That's exactly what they want though. Their real user growth has slowed down and they're trying to juke the numbers by coercing the hold outs to sign up.
Here in Mexico at least, there's almost no 4k content on Prime. Even less Atmos content.

Netflix, Disney, and Apple are great.

HboMax has 4k content, but their tech is really bad and the quality is constantly jumping between SD to 720p to 1080p to 4k. We have a 500Mbps fiber connection.
And a lot of those countries had standard of living sharply rise during communist era. People really, really under appreciate how bad conditions were in many of those countries for those who weren't creme de la creme of society, or how much for example interwar Poland history is kept silent about the squalor and poverty of huge portion of the society.

Yes, for various reasons economic systems in many of them failed (or in few cases, it was nationalistic strife that dealt the blow), but others learnt lessons from it (for example, about badly defining and strictly adhering to plans, or too high concentration in one company, etc.)
The issue is relying on a foreign currency, one which the official exchange rate is like 50% marked up from its real black market value, which is how the economy reaaaally works there. I worry for Argentines (I am one), because the usd is having the same problems the peso has every 7 years, its being printed into inflation oblivion.

I would be buying that canned tuna, and also using bitcoin, etc like the surging numbers of people are, because escaping one fiat submarine for another fiat sinking ship is not something I could sleep well with. Besides, the politicians down there are nuts and could easily make holding dollars totally illegal, infact they already do with strict capital controls, withdrawal limits, etc. Its a cash economy.
Scotts question is better because it asks to explain why the universe as we see it needs QM.

Your question is unbounded because you're asking us to imagine an alternative that doesn't exist; there could be infinitely many reasons because there could be infinitely many alternative possibilities you're asking us to imagine with no constaints
What if it was purposefully built that way like Emeryville's Bay Street location?
I imagine the story is exaggerated.
If you mean to build yourself, yes, there are several.

A few examples...

https://rosco-m68k.com/

https://github.com/74hc595/68k-nano

https://shop.mcjohn.it/en/diy-kit/46-68k-mbc.html

https://www.kswichit.com/68k/68k.html

This one is a one-off but for me it is one of the most impressive:

https://www.ist-schlau.de/

It runs EmuTOS and 68K Enhanced BASIC.
It's illegal in many countries to advertise for investments like this.

So for example in the USA: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/17/230.502

You can't advertise, in fact much of this 'kickstarter for investment' would be virtually blank by law. You would have to pre-screen and qualify each investor on your own. Nobody would be interested in investing this way.

Very long history on why this is important and why virtually all countries with an exchange do this.

Want to pivot your idea? Create "uber plumber' or 'uber electrician' or 'uber handyman' where you can basically request an electrician and electricians can join up and get jobs easily like an uber eats.
Something I used to do (many years ago, in my Uni days) was to have a script called wtf in directories with code (and some without). Most of them were no more than a text document wrapped by a #! line and cat <<here-doc so it could be read as a text file too.

The file contained what project or uni module it was for, and any significant commands (build & run one-liners), and links to documentation. Some of them had a couple of extra commands to run those one-liners if given a relevant parameter (such as “./wtf make”), like tokamak-teapot's run command but with a little extra typing. Basically a README that could potentially do a few actiony things.

Not something that I kept up in later life though. It was helpful for just me when I had a significant bunch of things actively going on or being referred back to, and particularly useful when the work was part of a group project or otherwise shared to others.
Your interpretation is a saner way to write tests, but I saw no indication that's what he meant. If it was what he meant, then he should have made it clearer. It's not like he couldn't have added an extra couple pages with an explanation and examples.
Oh come on. Nobody said it never happens, but do you have any reason to suspect Maher Dussel is corrupt or incompetent? Do you have any reason to believe this random guy is as qualified as a team of CPAs to audit public sector books?
"That place is so crowded that no one goes there anymore."
Is it that or the indoor mall with massive parking around it? I know of one of that type near me that is doing the conversion (it isn't mentioned in the article, but probably one of the almost 200 in the US doing the same)
No I don't imply that at all. The article is clear, at least seemed to be to me, that he had affiliations with Chinese organizations, he did not disclose them, and most importantly to the charges being dropped, based on Department of Energy regulations, he was under no obligation to disclose them.

The US attorney brought charges based on the idea that he was obligated to disclose them. The US attorney was wrong according to the Department of Energy, who administered the grant.
I recently quit Twitter (almost[0]) and have been much happier ever since.

It seems (to me) that the way Twitter increases "engagement" is to show you the tweets that will upset you the most, so that you can either reply with an angry thing of your own, or furiously "like" other angry responses.

I tried to unfollow a lot of people who tend to post about controversial topics but Twitter keeps showing me their tweets or similar ones from other people. It also insists on showing me things that are popular but that don't concern me (such as sports).

There doesn't seem to be a way to see only the tweets of the people you follow. And even if there was... random thoughts and bits from people I don't know are seldom interesting, and very unnecessary.

At some point I thought I was addicted to Twitter; but it turned out it's the easiest addiction to get rid of.

[0] "Almost": I didn't delete the account: I just logged out and stopped using Twitter completely.
A booth like that would usually be staffed by suits and engineers, and if you are extremely lucky, engineers in suits.

But plenty of companies sent minders and order takers, technically incompetent, they might be able to do a scripted demo but likely would not know the first thing about the actual uses of such a device.
Always surprising when public officials slip up in speech like that. I'm frequently chastised by my wife for using "got" instead of "have" in front of the kids, something I'd wager I'd have to be coached on if I took public office.
It's an abomination that is - if it's a government announcement put it on gov.tld/announcements. For sure, mirror that content anywhere you want to.

If it's a party announcement put it first on your party's page.

Mind you, this whole thing of presidents/premieres/PMs making announcements as if they are making up the policies ... if they are then everyone is screwed (and their advisors and party should stop that immediately), if they're doing it right and the policy has gone through party committees, government departments, experts, then the head of that group should be announcing it. Why the heck do we need everything filtered through some ignorant dickhead; whither democracy.

The cult of celebrity is ruin for humanity. Urgh.
Adding to the anecdote, OBS works great on Ubuntu.
Functional Programming and Web3 (With Brooklyn Zelenka)
I think the city of Hamburg could have more bridges, but it depends a lot on how you count. Do you count only road bridges? Do you count only the city centre?
I don’t understand why maintaining local infrastructure should be a responsibility of the federal government. I certainly don’t want my bridges to depend on Congress’s ability to cooperate.
It slows down (but doesn’t completely prevent) the creation of spam and grief accounts. It’s a tradeoff I’m willing to make.
Maybe it's the weird capitalization, or that I'm not a native English speaker, but "Major Bridge Collapses" to me sounds like the title of something. Aka a list of collapses, a book, long article about some history or whatever. Not something happening right now. So to me the title was underwhelming, not an exaggeration, because of that misunderstanding.
It is kind of curious fact that the US is not a member of ICC. Could you guess why?
But how often would you actually have to rewrite an entire 10-20k LOC project at once?

As you need to add functionality, you can opportunistically find ways to improve the codebase toward a better/more maintainable structure.

I have several large codebases I work on which probably get totally rewritten every 18 months or 2 years, however incrementally.

If you have a working project and you think you need to throw it all out and start from scratch probably it's worth a second thought.
You've got a bug somewhere. I entered the correct number for today 4 times and the third digit got flipped by the software every single time. I thought I had fat-fingered at first, but I very slowly typed it afterwards. It always switched the 1 to a 0 (which is incorrect, obvs).
Thanks for linking to that extension.
He's very famous and still nor verified on twitter. What a joke.
The normal Reddit is completely usable - this is complete hyperbole
I haven't listened to Rogan since his RSS feed died. I'm a fan, and I don't mind that he "got the bag", but I'm not going to take part in this attempt to kill podcasting.
I used to live next to the bridge mentioned here by John Oliver. Pittsburgh is something.

https://youtu.be/Wpzvaqypav8?t=447

"One of these arch bridges actually has a structure built under it to catch falling deck ... see that structure underneath it, they actually built that to catch falling concrete." ... "They built a bridge under the bridge..."

They've since repaired this one.
Redevelopments aren't uncommon though. I remember warehouses in San Francisco being converted into lofts while living there.
Oh, I didn't know that they are that numerous. Which numerous can you name? How many of them are mature and could be used with the modern expectations for usage with popular apps and services? How many of them have terms that are significantly different from the Apple's ones?
It doesn't appear to be ab initio simulated (e.g. QED up) if that's what you're asking. They appear to swoop in at higher scales (molecular level) and simulate molecular interactions across "hundreds of molecular species" and "thousands of reactions."

Apparently the interface between molecules uses the Chemical Master Equations (CME) and Reaction-Diffusion Master Equations (RDME) both of which I'm unfamiliar with:
http://faculty.scs.illinois.edu/schulten/lm/download/lm23/Us...
No, there's non-hardcoded ads in the premium tier of Spotify, I've gotten them.
It looks like saving a billion dollars in redundant work, which is a net societal gain. Now consumers have two companies to choose chips from instead of one functional monopoly due to a trade secret moat... Win for consumers. ;)

... Hence my unease with the way the question is phrased. I'm not saying we should either mandate corporate espionage or enforce some kind of punishments for not publicizing designs, but my point is it doesn't take a lot of reframing of the question to completely change the numbers, and that makes the numbers suspect for being anything real.

It's akin to the sleight of mind that allowed us to put the burden of fraud on consumers with the concept of "identity theft," instead of asking why it should be the responsibility of the person who's information was used that some third party used that information to trick a company into giving away resources. What if the mindset were instead "it's not Alice in Topeka's responsibility that Visa allowed Bob Hacker to scam Walmart out of a bunch of free stuff by pretending to be Alice, and Alice should be required to do exactly nothing to fix Walmart and Visa's problem?" What if instead of having to contract credit monitoring agencies to look out for identity theft, the government held credit reporting agencies responsible with statutory damages for defamation when they incorrectly declare a person has done something they have not?

A slight reframing of the problem completely changes the proposed solutions and the value calculus of what was gained and what was lost.
Because doubling the amount of dollars in the past year or so is not at all worrying for "transitory" inflation. Dont be naive, it's coming. The politicians have kicked the can down the road for decades and had they not bailed out the bigs in 2008 and during this past 2 years we would be bankrupt. Its a house of cards. They are going to push us into a war to escape the inevitable.
> Today it’s forcing them to open up payment gateways, tomorrow it’s forcing them to put a police backdoor in iMessage.

There is no U.S. antitrust provision that would force Apple to place a backdoor in iMessage. And if iMessage is compromised in certain countries where secure messaging apps are banned (such as China: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...), iOS users would benefit from having the option to sideload apps like Signal and use them to communicate securely.

Forbidding one company from taking anti-competitive actions against smaller companies that increase the prices its users pay for products and services is not taking away from your rights. If you don't want to download or purchase anything through means not endorsed by Apple, you're not being forced to do so. The App Store and Apple's payment system are still available to you. The idea that others should conform to and pay for your preferences is antithetical to the notion of freedom.
Same here. I wonder if it's intentional - what are the chances we were both off by the same single digit?
> This is why lanes are given a wide berth of parked cars.

If only that was always true: this[1] kind of lane is far too common. It's completely counter-productive as it actually encourages the cyclist into the door zone without being wide enough to keep passing traffic at a safe distance (also a dashed-line means cars may enter the lane anyway, so it's indicative only).

The safest place to cycle here is probably so far right that a car won't be able to pass without a full overtake in the oncoming lane, moving to the left only when there are no door hazards. also you should keep right though the choke-point island, as you do not want a car to overtake you there, unless you want a taste of one of those bollards - imagine being a bike next to the black oncoming car.

However, such an assertive riding position tends to upset cars who may instead punishment-pass the cyclist. Understandably, many cyclists prefer not to open themselves to such bullying and will instead stick to their lanes, and risk doorings instead.

Even quite wide, well-marked and "safe-looking" lanes can still be mostly within the door zone[2].

[1] https://i.imgur.com/4zm6VwB.png

[2] https://i.imgur.com/vVh7fUP.png
Does the fact that the company screwed up make the sales person feel better in that moment?
It should be obvious how he meant it. Perhaps a parable to the term and historic forgetfulness itself?

Much better read than the article.
I wonder how much of the visible sky it’s affecting from our vantage point. Ie how sure are they that it’s not a near field obstruction?
Of course not, we can't even simulate how one protein folds.
The underlying theory behind the SETI interest is that we are seeing the effects of 'alien megastructures' in orbit around that star. If they can build that, presumably they would be able to build scientific instrumentation to characterize the planet if not directly image it.
I cannot find evidence of a single US school district that did not have an in-person option this academic year. As another commenter mentioned, it now makes national headlines when a school district needs to take a 1 week pause.

Also the original commenter was talking about early childhood development, not beuracracy. Everything kids learned from 9/2019 through 2/2020 shouldn't disappear because of what happened that spring. If it does our school systems are even worse than I thought.

You wouldn't say you are going into 30 years 2 months before your 29th birthday. And "no end in sight" makes 0 sense in the context of in person schooling, because the end of remote school is already in the rear view mirror.
Personally I had luck with using Blackhole
The fuel appears to be how much effort the compiler spends to find optimizations. If you give it no fuel it just spits out the simplest code it can generate. If you give it fuel it will "spend" that to search for more optimal code.

Since the simplest code didn't exhibit the bug and more optimized code did they were able to bisect the fuel value to find the particular unit of fuel that caused the incorrect optimization to be run. Then they could simply diff the two runs since they were incredibly similar (ideally just that one incorrect optimization differs) which allowed them to quickly narrow down on the root cause.
US is set to collect approx. $3.86 trillion in taxes this year and 18.5% ($715 billion) of it is allocated for military budget and 1.3% ($51 billion) of it will be handed-out as Foreign Aid to other nations while another 8% ($300 billion) will be used to pay interest payments on our national debt. Only 3% ($115 billion) is allocated to modernize the bridges, highways, roads, and main streets that are in most critical need of repair. Maybe the government is the largest/legal ponzi scheme after all.

Edit: I provided a wrong figure earlier for Foreign Aid. As per @whatkim, the correct amount should be approx. 1.3% ($51 billion) for 2021.

You can see a complete categorical breakdown here: https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/spend...

Still, there are a few areas of concern:

1. Income Security > Other Income Security $831 billion

2. Education is 41% of the military budget! $296 billion
Nah!

I was picturing a massive bubble with me in the middle so I could jump off the roof and bounce away or something...
Well you have the option of making a free account on reuters and then not having to worry about it while logged in. For me personally, as I rarely visit reuters apart from when its linked to here on HN I just delete the localstorage for the site when I hit the limit.
It's clearly much better to have the populace gamble their money away on sports, penny stocks, lotteries and crypto scams.
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Thank you, I was wondering why they never even show me a tweet but people report that Twitter does allow that. I have a couple of accounts used to duplicate content to other streams, must be cookies lying around.
This assumes a differnt universe could have been possible. What pool are you sampling from? What notion of probability are you relying on?

scott is not asking what other universes were possible. he's asking to explain why QM must be true in the universe that we do observe.
I dont get mage, but i've been using makefiles for over 13 years.

I love go but the only example on the site is bad, and there is not any others. Also, executing commands in go is tedious and verbose w/o helpers. The "Why" on the page fails to convince me as well.

How is a makefile too much whitespace?

Is there any good examples of mage being used in a larger project? preferably a popular one?
Looks pretty big to me. Granted, it's not the Mississippi but as long as an articulated bus is involved with lots more "bridge" that felt I'd say is pretty big.
Scientists do not necessarily see the global picture here -- if anything, they'll be inclined to downplay geopolitical and nat-security issues (or at look the other way) if it produces more and better science. This is excluding any consideration of funding -- just what a scientist is supposed to care about.

Some people need to take science more seriously, but there's a kind of crowd that needs to stop worshipping scientists.
>> But the enormous amounts of money spent on armaments has reduced the amount of money available for infrastructure maintenance and other necessities.

Which is odd because (I think) part of government spending seems to be redistribution of money, which would be better achieved through maintenance of infrastructure.
This is what is called driving a narrative or colloquially 'gaslighting'.

In this case it's for a good cause.

In most cases it's of dubious merit. Anyway, "make people believe something is this way so as to normalize it and have them change behavior".

If instead proponents would say, "this is the ideal in the Netherlands, but while it's on the books virtually no one does it in practice and most only know about it through foreign media mentions" no one would pay much attention to it.
You’re far more gracious than I. If someone were to call something I’m clearly passionate about “silly” I don’t think I’d respond genially.
And, full of folks who've left Teamviewer.
My first purchase as a kid with my own money was for bubble gum. The bill I handed them had 3 zeros on it..